the family finally announces plans for michael jackson's burial. where, when and how the pop legend will be finally laid to rest. also, gunmen bust into a phoenix home and make off with a baby girl and a 2-year-old boy. we now know where the kids are, but what about the suspects? a georgia couple is killed in a brutal attack. why authorities are not planning to name any suspects in this case. i'm so glad that you're with us on this tuesday. i'm christi paul. welcome to "hln news and views." so good to see you. breaking news we're learning about today regarding michael jackson. he'll be laid to rest on what would have been his 51st

birthday in glendale north of los angeles on august 29th. that's next saturday. a family spokesman says the singer will be buried in the cemetery's great mausoleum which features replicas of the works of michelangelo. the ceremony will be limited to family and close friends though. remember, jackson died on june 26th. his family though may file a wrongful death lawsuit against the late singer's concert promoter. a family attorney says jackson's family thinks aeg live played an active role during the last six months of his life and apparently paid for dr. conrad murray's services. remember, murray is at the center of a criminal investigation into jackson's death. i want to let you know we are getting breaking news in. we're just learning here journalist robert novak has died. his family says he died of cancer. the longtime columnist was a cnn host and political contributor from 1980 until 2006. again, just learning that robert novak has died at the age of 78.

boy, this was something. two young children are back with their mother thankfully after being abducted overnight from their home in phoenix. imagine how violent this was because police say the children ages 2 and 11 months were taken by heavily armed men during a home invasion. they believe the case started as an attempted robbery. the children were eventually dropped off at a house in south phoenix. those suspects, we need to point out, have not been caught. but the mother wasn't hurt. the children appear to be okay. thankfully, there they are. poor little things. police do not think by the way that the mother knew these suspects. really bizarre. it's been seven days now since kristi cornwell disappeared, and officials say time is now the enemy. the georgia woman disappeared last tuesday as she walked along a rural road near playersville. her boyfriend says they were talking on her cell phone when he overhead a struggle that. cell phone was found about two miles north of where she was

last seen. police are investigating whether her former jobs are related to the case. here's why. she worked at a state prison, a county sheriff's office and was once a probation officer. her brother spoke with hln's nancy grace last night about the ongoing search. >> out right now to richard cornwell, his brother, joining us from blairsville, georgia. richard, thanks for being with us. what are cops telling you tonight? >> they briefed us on their continued search today using helicopters, atvs, grounds searches, horseback. they have canine teams. they have got divers that are searching primarily around bridges, so they are -- they are continuing their -- continuing to throw all their assets that they can at the search. >> her brother says cornwell

also took firearms classes and taught self-defense. she does have a 15-year-old son. now watch nancy grace for breaking news tonight. where is kristi cornwell and will searchers be spreading out across georgia to find her? whether l they be able to? her phone left behind that. may be the best clue yet. nancy investigates tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern right here on hln. a $10,000 reward is available to anyone with information about a missing 5-year-old boy from oakland, california. since hasanni campbell disappeared last monday, police say they have received very few tips and are worried that the window to find this young boy alive may be running out. there's his picture. please take a good look. his foster father left hasanni in his parked consider. since he has cerebral palsy and wears braces on both legs police doubt he could have walked far on his own. preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack

of wild dogs. the coup's mutilated bodies were found saturday along a rural road in georgia. the sheriff says animal control has captured 13 stray dogs seen in that area including four puppies. investigators say the dogs have been hanging around an abandoned house in that area but a superior court judge will now decide what to do with them. and a cast member at walt disney world's indiana jones epic stuntd spectacular died after an accidents at a rehearsal. here's the thing. that makes limb the third disney employee -- disney world employ toe die in the past seven weeks. according to local police disney security called 911 after a performer suffered a head injury. disney said it would cancel today's indiana jones show in honor of the 30-year-old man but last month two employees died, in fact one suffered an injury during a braurl during a perf m performance at the magic kingdom. a man accused of stalking teen star miley cyrus is due in court this afternoon. police say the 53-year-old man

tried to breach security at a movie set of the georgia coast back in june. he's been warned to stay away from that area from taibbi island. cyrus was there filming the movie "the lang song." police said he said he was secretly engaged to the star and the teen sent him messages through her tv show. oh, i don't know if you're going to believe this one we're just getting in. it appears brett favre is about to un-retire yet again. espn.com reporting that according to their sources the quarterback will sign a contract with the minnesota vikings for $10 million to $12 mill

originally passed the measure by overriding governor brad henry's veto arguing it was unconscionable to require victims of rape and invest to undergo this ultrasound so we want to know what you think about this. i know it's a very sensitive topic but do you think an ultrasound should be required before a woman has an abortion? give us a call at 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail cnn.com/hln or text the word viewers. your comments and your name to hlntv. standard text rates apply and thanks so much for being part of the discussion here. hurricane bill, look at that, looming large, building strength in the atlantic ocean right now. forecasters say all the elements are there for it to become a

major storm. it strengthened to a category two storm yesterday with winds whipping at 100 miles per hour. forecasters say the winds could get as high at 110 miles per hour in the next couple of days. now as for where it's headed. forecasters say it seems to be on a west northwesterly track. there it is. you can see the trajectory. it could be near bermuda by the end of the week. well, what could possibly be so valuable about a bunch of old footballs and neckties? well, footballs from o.j. simpson's glory days and he wore the ties during his murder trial, so who gets did all?

well, get this. apparently o.j. simpson still wants his stuff back. he'll have to fight fred goldman for t.lawyers are due in court today in santa monica, california, to argue who should get the collect iblgs. he's serving a 9 to 30-year

sentence for failed attempt to take memorabilia from collectors in a las vegas hotel room. well, sunday schoolteacher sunday suspected killer melissa huck aby has been indicted on kidnapping, rape and murder charges. she broke down in court yesterday as the judge read the indictment handed down by a grand jury in. huck ayeby has pleaded not guilty to murdering sandra can'tu. her body was found stuffed in a suitcase found in an irrigation pond. she pled not guilty to drugging a 7-year-old girl and a man whom she dated at one point. a trial date, by the way, has not been set. want to bring i some live pictures here from our affiliate wsbn in miami. they are rounding up ten

severely abused horses. look at them there. investigators from the spca raided this southwest miami-dade farm. they are threatening the owner of the horses with arrest if he didn't turn over ownership of those horses to the spca. now the spca got a tip apparently from a neighbor that the horses weren't being fed, that they were being neglected and that they were being abused, so, again, live pictures as they try to roundp those animals obviously to try to get them to a veterinarian so they can -- an equine veterinarian so they can be checked out and helped indeed if they are in a malnourished state. the mayor who milwaukee police say beaten with a metal pipe is out of the hospital. now we're also learning more about saturday's attack. milwaukee mayor tom barrett lost two front teeth we've learned, that his hand is shattered. he was trying to defend a grandmother at a state fair when police say the 20-year-old man

attacking her turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it on all of you and tom's kids start to cry at that point because he's with his two daughters who are 10 and 12. my niece and my sister, and my brother says to my sister, betsy, go take the kids and get them out of harm's way, and the assailant said nobody is going anywhere and tom said take the kids out of the way. >> no one else was hurt in the attack, but police arrested the suspect sunday saying he was drunk and arguing with the grandmother about seeing his 1-year-old daughter. we have part of the 911 call in fact that was made while barrett was being attacked. his niece was the one who called.

>> police say they don't believe the suspect knew that the man he attacked was milwaukee's mayor. she was known as a board room bully on donald trump's "the apprentice." i know you'll remember her. wait until you hear what omarosa is doing now.

the white house now says president obama still favors a public option in his plan to overhaul health care. spokesman robert gibbs says rumors to the contrary very been overblown. sunday health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius said a government-run insurance plan was not essential to health care reform. afterward the co-chairs of two congressional groups wrote her a letter saying they feel a public option is essential. today sebelius clarified her remarks by saying the administration supports the public option. she also says they are opening to hearing other ideas about how to lower health care costs and give americans more choices.

the president is turning his attention from health care reform to the stalled peace process in the middle east. he's meeting with egyptian president hosni mubarak at the white house. this is his first visit to washington in five years. mubarak had a falling out with the bush administration. now the obama administration wants egypt to step up efforts to forge a peace deal between israel and the palestinians. two attacks rocked afghanistan's capital today including one aimed at the presidential palace. a roadside bombing killed seven people in kabul. this is according to security officials, but president hamid karzai's palace was hit by a rocket a few hours earlier. karzai wasn't hurt. the country's presidential election though is just two days away and the taliban has vowed to disrupt it. jenny sanford says her husband is not a bad person. she, of course, is the wife of south carolina governor mark sanford and she's talking openly about her husband's affair now and doing so in an interview

with "vogue" magazine. sanford says her husband was obsessed with the woman in argentina, and their relationship was almost like an addiction for him. she also says the man she married is not the same person who had the affair. now she and the couple's four boys moved out of the governor's mansion two weeks ago. sanford says divorce remains an option in her opinion. she says it's up to her husband to do the soul searching to see if he wants to stay married. in her words, quote, the ball is in his court. do you remember omarosa from "the apprentice" show? she's studying to become a minister and has gone through a transformation since starring on reality television >> the images of me in the trump board room are very, you know, bold, vivid images, but i think it's important to understand that when i taped "the apprentice" that was in 2003, and over time people change. >> it was a long time ago. her doctoral degree is expected

to take two or three years. >> okay. do you have real candid discussions about finance with your significant other? i know that can be a real tough subject, but hln money expert clark howard says this is a discussion you need to have. >> okay. if you're married, if you have a partner, how much have you talked as a couple about money, about what your goals are, what your plans are? if you're like most couples, you're not getting together talking about things. the huge financial house belly investments has done a survey that found, get this, 80 plus percent of couples don't have it together about how they are going to plan for retirement. even more, in a couple, there's no trust going on because only 15% of people asked said they trusted their partner to be able

to handle money in the case of their death. now there is a real lack of communication here. i want you to sit down with your wife, your husband, talk about money, talk about what your goals are, talk about how you're saving to get it done. i'm clark howard. for more things i want you to get done go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> get great consumer advice from clark howard every saturday and sunday at noon and 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln "news and views." he helps you save more, save more and avoid getting ripped off. speaking of money, an andy warhol painting of michael jackson goes on the auction bid and the opening bid, there it is, is set at $800,000, but it could go for millions. the new york gallery that's handling the bidding didn't say who is selling the painting, but the picture is one of five jackson portraits painted by warhol. if a business closes before

you get there, it's usually not a matter of life or death but not always amount. texas judge son trial right now for closing her court exactly at 5:00 p.m. what that meant for a convicted killer.

want to get you some breaking news we've learned about regarding michael jackson. he will be laid to rest on what would have been his 51st birthday. jackson will be buried at a private ceremony at forest lawn cemetery in glendale. that's north of los angeles on august 29th. now a family spokesman says he will be buried in the great mausoleum featuring works and replicas of the great michelangelo. jackson died on june 25th. his family, too, may file a wrongful death lawsuit against the concert promoter. the jackson family thinks aeg live did play an active role during the last six months of his life and apparently paid for

dr. conrad murray's services. murray, you'll remember, sat the center of a criminal investigation in jackson's death journalist and conservative columnist robert novak has died after a long battle with brain cancer. he was 78 years old. he was a cnn host and political contributor from 1980 until 2006. novak later became a central figure in the valle plame cia leak case. he cooperated and was not charged. he eve learned that robert novak has died at the age of 78. unarguably this one, it appears brett favre is about to un-retire yet again. espn.com saying according to their sources the quarterback will sign a contract with the minnesota vikings for $10 million to $12 million. might bring you out of retirement. wisn-tv in milwaukee reports a plane carrying far rv and his wife left mississippi this

morning and that it's headed to minneapolis. it could land within the hour here. favre spent 16 years with the green bay packers before playing for a year with the new york jets remember. well, two young children are back with their mother after being abducted overnight from their home in phoenix. police say the children ages 2 and 11 months were taken by heavily armed men during a home invasion. can you imagine how terrifying. they believe the case starts the as an attempted robbery. there's the 2-year-old, but the children were eventually dropped off at a house in south phoenix. the thing is the suspects haven't been caught, and we want to point out the mother was not hurt. the children appear to be okay. look at the little one there. police do not, however, think that the mother knew the suspects either. a $10,000 reward is available now for anyone with information about that will lead to the whereabouts of a missing 5-year-old boy from oakland, california. since hasanni campbell disappeared last monday police say they have received very few tips and worry the window to

find him alive may be closing so please take a good look at your screen here. there is the little guy. hasanni disappeared after his foster father louis ross left him in his parked car. at a candlelight vigil held last night ross pleaded for the public's help. >> if you want to help keep our son in the news, don't let him become a picture on a milk carton five years later that you never funds. you wants to help, that's what you do. >> now authorities do not think hasanni could have walked far on his own since he has cerebral palsy and he wears braces on both of his legs. it's been seven days since kristi cornwell disappeared. officials now say time is the enemy. this is a georgia woman who disappeared last tuesday as she walked along a rural road near blairsville. her boyfriend says they were talking on her cell phone when he overheard of a struggle. now that phone was found two miles north of where she was

last seen. but police are investigating whether her former jobs are related to this case. here's why. she worked at a state prison ashes county sheriff's office and was once a probation officer so authorities say such background probes are standard in missing persons cases. cornwell's brother spoke with hln's nancy grace last night. >> out right now to richard cornwell, his brother who is joining us from blairsville, georgia. richard, thank you for being with us. what are cops telling you tonight? >> they briefed us on their continue continued search today using helicopters, atvs, ground searches, horseback. they have got canine teams. they have got divers that are searching primarily around bridges so they are -- they are continuing their -- continuing to throw all their assets that

they can at the search. >> her brother says cornwell also took firearms classes and taught self-defense, and she does have a 15-year-old son. watch nancy grace for breaking news tonight because the big question where is kristi cornwell, and will searchers spread out across northern georgia? will they be able to find her? her phone left behind may be the best clue here. "nancy grace" tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern here on hln. preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. the couple's mutilated bodies were found saturday along a rural road in northeastern georgia. the sheriff says animal control has captured 13 stray dogs seen in that area including four puppies. investigators say the dogs apparently had been hanging around at an abandoned house in the area. a superior court judge will decide what to do with them. a cast member at walt disney

world's indiana jones epic stunt spectacular died after an accident during a rehearsal. here's the thing. that makes him the third disney world employee to die in the past seven weeks. according to local police disney security called 911 after a performer suffered a head injury. disney said it would cancel today's indiana jones show in honor of the 30-year-old man, but last month two employees died, one suffered injuries in a bad on stage fall during a performance at the magic kingdom. look at this guy. man accused of stalking teen star miley cyrus due in court this afternoon. police say the 53-year-old man tried to breach security at a movie set off the georgia coast in june, and he's been warned now to stay away from that area from tiny island but cyrus was filming there the movie "the last song" and police say he told them he was secretly engaged to the 16-year-old and the teen star sent him messages through her tv show.

he's jailed on three misdemeanor charges including attempted stalking. look at hurricane bill, show you that here in a moment, he is looming large and getting stronger in the atlantic ocean as well. meteorologist chad myers has been looking at a projected path and how much stronger they believe it's going to get. where do you at this point see it heading? >> it is still heading to the west northwest. it is still i believe going to miss the west indies. going to miss the british virgin islands and anila and especially bones and into puerto rico. there's the storm right now at 105 miles per hour. the storm has to make a curve around a high pressure that is still anchored, christi, right here, and it will not make this curve that is forecast until this high moves to the east and allows the turn to do this. here's the circulation that we're hoping for when the high moves to the east.

here's the circulation. here's the circulation we have now, and if you notice the difference, this circulation would drag the storm farther to the west, but when this high does this, then all of a sudden this westward part of the component of that wind will now be a south and southeastward part, and it will turn around, so that is some of the good news. it is also forecast to be 125 miles per hour, 120 as it makes a run at bermuda. bermuda still in the cone. i just want to stress the united states, no matter what you've heard, has never been in the cone. the u.s. east coast has never been any part of any forecast model yet. earlier today a little bit of yesterday models were trying to bring it closer to north carolina and maybe making a swing at the little tip here maybe of eastern long island and into massachusetts. that's still a possibility, but i would say the possibility of that is still 1% to 2% because

the rest of the models all take it and turn it. got to be one of those waiting games. does the high get out of way in time? if it doesn't at least we'll know with many days in advance because that sunday before it gets to determine did a. even if it would try to turn or not turn into the u.s. we would still have another four to five days notice and figure out where this thing is going. that's why it's so hard and people say how come you can't be more accurate with this? how come you don't know what that high is going to do? >> it's early on. >> who lives out here in the middle of the atlantic? how many weather balloons can you send up in the middle of the atlantic to know what the atmosphere is doing? >> good point. >> zero, we just don't have the data necessary to figure out whether this actually -- this high is going to get out of the way or not. all of the forecast models say so far so good. bermuda, still need to be watching out for this. >> sure. you said 125-mile-per-hour winds, what category does that make it? >> a category three. 105 and to get to category three you only need to get to 1111 so

we're only six miles agrey that right now and some of the computers get up to 140 miles per hour. that would be the next category past three but we don't need to worry about that. so far that's where the fish will be affected. we'll call that the fish storm. bermuda, they don't want a category four anywhere near that island. >> chad, thank you so much for bringing us up to speed as always. >> you bet. if a business closes before you get there, usually not a matter of life or death. not always. the texas judge is on trial for closing her court exbeing actly at 5:00 p.m. what that meant for a convicted killer and what charges the judge is facing.

well, a texas judge is in

court today fighting for her job. judge sharon kell sert presiding judge at the texas court of criminal appeals and is facing five counts of judicial misconduct for apparently refusing to keep a court open after 5:00 p.m. on september 25th, 2007. that was the night convicted killer michael richard was executed and that prevented richard from filing a late appeal. judge keller could take the stand as early as today so we'll be watching that for you. also the man who shot and killed three women and wounded nine others at a pittsburgh area health club wanted to leave his $225,000 estate to the university of pittsburgh. george sodini graduated from there during 1992 and killed himself there during the august 4th rampage. this all may be a moot point anyway. legal expert says any money from the estate will most likely be used to pay damages and lawsuits

that are filed against him. >> i'm jane velez mitchell and here's my issue. michael vick says he's remor remorseful but i'm not buying did. he told "60 minutes" that he regrets what he did but let's not forget this wasn't a momentary lapse of judgment. this was years of torturing and killing dogs. now that vick has been signed, let's see what he does. he can say he's sorry until he's blue in the face, but what counts is eliminating this culture of dogfighting. if he really helps the humane society stop kids from torturing animals they be and only then can he truly be considered a changed man so do us a favor, mike. stop the pr intervice and start the hard work that's needed to end this so-called sport that's really just torture. i'm jane velez mitchell and that's my issue. >> watch "issues" with jane velez mitchell every night here at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on hln. you may soon be able to take

your favorite movies from the big screen and put them on a really, really small screens. you can catch flicks, yes, on your cell phone.

well, later this afternoon a judge is expected to rule on a controversial anti-abortion law in oklahoma. it forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. critics say the law is unconstitutionally vague, that it doesn't spell out what doctors should tell women who are undergoing the ultrasound. proponents say it requires doctors to describe the fetus, its dimensions, its heart activity and other physical details. the state lawmakers originally passed the major by overriding governor brad henry's veto. henry argued it was unconscionable to require victims of rape and incest to undergo the ultrasound. what do you think? this is a very sensitive issue? do you believe an ultrasound should be required before a woman has an abortion? do you think it gives a woman perspective say, an informed choice, or does it infringe on her right to choose? call us at 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail cnn.com/hln or text the word views.

your comments and your name to hlntv. standard text rates apply, by the way. thanks for being part of the discussion here. we really appreciate it. two attacks rocked afghanistan's capital today including one aimed at the presidential palace. a roadside bombing sild seven people in kabul according to security officials here but president hamid karzai's palace was hit by rocket a few hours earli earlier. karzai wasn't hurt. the country's presidential election is two days away and the taliban has vowed to disrupt it. and the president is turning his attention to the stalled peace process in the middle east today. president obama meeting with egyptian president hosni mubarak at the white house. this is his first visit to washington in five years. mubarak had a falling out with the bush administration so now the obama administration wants egypt to step up efforts to forge a peace deal between israeli -- between israel i should say and the palestinians. and the president of taiwan is apologizing for the

government's slow response to rescue and relief efforts after typhoon morakot devastated the island ten days ago now. he plans sweeping changes and may actually hold government officials accountable. there are, however, volunteer groups on the ground who are aiding those in need. i-reporter grace chen has continued to send in updates on the foundation that she belonged to and says the situation there is grim, that they are working in small villages here where a lot of people were buried alive and thousands are stranded because of washed-out roads and bridges. chen says her organization is doing what it can to get relief goods into some of those more isolated areas there, and the government is dropping supplies by helicopters. volunteers are comforting families of the deceased though and continuing to prepare hot meals. also providing medical assistance and cleaning up mud and debris. grace says the foundation also plans to rebuild homes and schools in the future.

typhoon morakot hit taiwan on august 8th dumping 102 inches of rain, killed at least 123 people, but, boy, grace, thank you so much for for bringing us your perspective there on what you're seeing and best of luck to to you on all the work you and volunteers are doing there. just go to ireport.com and click on the upload now link and you'll find instructions there on how to submit your story. the mayor whose police say was attacked with a metal pipe is out of the hospital now. we are also learning more about saturday's attack, though. milwaukee mayor tom barrett has lost two front teeth, his hand is shattered. he was trying to defend a grandmother at a state fair when police say the 20-year-old man attacking her turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it on all of you and tom's kids start to cry at that point because he's with his two daughters who are

10 and 12 and my niece and my sister and my brother says to my sister, betsy, go take the kids and get them out of harm's way and the assailant says, no, nobody's going anywhere. tom says, take the kids out of the way. >> no one else was hurt but police did arrest a suspect on sunday saying he was drunk and arguing with the grandmother about seeing his 1-year-old daughter. you may soon be able to watch your favorite movies on your cell phone. blockbuster has announced a new plan to let people with certain motorola films download films. blockbuster has been struggling to find new revenue streams and services like netflix and it hasn't said when the new service has been available nor has it told us how much it will cost. an andy warhol painting goes on the auctioning bid later today. the bid set at 800 grand.

it could go for millions, though. we'll let you know what happens. well, does a leader of the right have two left feet. a conservative leader joins a parade of politicos kicking up their heels. óóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóó

the founding co-host of cnn's "crossfire" has died. what colleagues are saying today about bob novak. two young kids are reunited with their mom after being kidnapped overnight from their home in phoenix. should a woman be leg-- it could become the law in oklahoma today. tell us what you think. latest from hln news and views. conservative commentator robert novak has succumbbed to brain cancer at the age of o78. his family said he died earlier today at home. newspaper readers followed his column in the "chicago

sun-times" which syndicated it for decades and even his political opponents said they admired bob novak's connections. >> i think anything that people don't know about bob, don't realize is he is very ideological guy and very opinionated guy and he was a good reporter and he really tried to get his sources right. when his column, the monday column in "the washington post" everybody in washington read that, in particularly when he wrote about republicans because you knew he had a story that no one else had. he didn't make stuff up. he was a factual reporter. >> you'll recall, bob novak found himself in the middle of the valerie blame scandal. he outed the cia operative in his column in the summer of 2003. friend called novak the prince of darkness. he used it for the title of his memoir. two young children are back

with their mother after being abducted overnight from their home in phoenix. police say the children age 2 and 11 months were taken by heavily armed men during a home invasion. they believe the case started as an attempted robbery. the kids were dropped off at a house in south phene x. the suspects were not hurt. police don't think the mother knew the suspects. it's been seven days now since kritsi cornwell went missing and time is now the enemy. the woman disappeared last tuesday in union county, georgia. her boyfriend says they were talking on the cell phone when he overheard a struggle. that phone was found two miles north of where she was last seen. police are investigating if her former job was related to the case. she worked at a state prison and once a probation officer. such background probes are standard in missing persons cases. cornwell's brother spoke with nancy grace last night about the ongoing search.

>> out right now to richard cornwell, this is her brother. joining us from blairsville, georgia. what are cops telling you tonight? >> they briefed us on their continued search today using helicopters, atvs, ground searches, horseback. they've got canine teams. they've got divers that are searching and primarily around bridges. so, they are continuing their, continuing to throw all their assets they can at the search. >> her brother says cornwell also took firearms classes and taught self-defense. she has a 15-year-old son. don't miss nancy grace tonight, breaking news in the ongoing search for kristi cornwell. what happened to her? will the searchers spread out across georgia and find her? sunday schoolteacher turned

suspected killer melissa huckabee has been indicted on kidnapping, rain and murder charges. huckabee broke down in court yesterday as the judge read the indictment handed down by a grand jury. huckabee has pleaded not guilty to murdering 8-year-old sandra cantu. huckaby pleaded not guilty to charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man who police believe she dated at one point. no trial date has been set. preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. the couple's mutilated bodies were found along a road in eastern georgia. animal control has captured 13 stray dogs in the area, including four puppies. investigators say the dogs have been hanging around an abandoned house in the area. >> it appears it is time that she was attacked and killed by

the dogs in some manner. at some point and then possibly later on he came up, but we feel assured that she was probably attacked first, based on the location of the scene. >> they were, you know, wonderful, dear, kind-hearted people and we miss them and this is just terrible. terrible. >> a superior court judge will decide what to do with the dogs. later this afternoon, a judge will rule on an a controversial anti-abortion law in oklahoma. it forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. the law is vague and doesn't spell out what doctors should tell women undergoing the ultrasound. it requires doctors to describe the fetus, its dimensions and any heart activity and any and all physical characteristics. state lawmakers originally passed the measure by overriding governor brad henry's veto. henry argued it was unconscionable to require victims of rain and incest to undergo an ultrasound. we love your view on that.

what do you think, an ultrasound would be required before any woman has an abortion. do you think it gives a woman a perspective and infringes on her rights to choose? call us 1-877-835-5456. e-mail at cnn.com/hln or text your comments and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. some liberals are hammering because they're backing off a key piece of his health care plan. give up the require frment public health insurance to compete with private insurance in an effort to pass something this fall. but one health policy researcher says government-funded insurance would not be the budget buster many fear. >> what the cbo has said, the congressional budget office said most americans will continue to get coverage through private health insurance and enrollment in private health insurance would increase. the public option would probably

enroll 15 million or 16 million people and that balance between the public sector and private sector would be relatively unchanged. >> there has been no shift in the president's policies but it is a huge sticking point. critics say it's like having the government take over health care, but supporters want it to create competition with private companies. the president is turning his attention from health care reform to the stalled peace process in the middle east. he's meeting with egypt's president mubarak at the white house. this is brand-new video, we just got it in. mubarak's first visit to washington in five years. he had a falling out with the bush administration. now, the obama administration wants egypt to step up efforts to forge a peace deal between israel and the palestinians. well, it appears brett favre is going to unretire again. take some reps again in the nfl. the 39-year-old quarterback arrived in minnesota to meet with the vikings.

the coach asked if he was planning to sign favre and childress replied "in a perfect world." you'll have to read between the lines, i guess. brett favre will likely sign a one-year, $12 million deal to become a viking this season. of course, he spent 16 years famously with the green bay packers before playing a year with the new york jets. we also learned michael jackson will be laid to rest on what would have been his 51st birthday. he will be buried during a private ceremony in glendale august 29th. the family's spokesman said he would be buried in the great mausoleums which features works of michael anglo. michael jackson died june 25th. south carolina governor mark sanford's wife, jenny, is opening up about his affair. how she characterizes it.

the mayor who milwaukee police say was beaten with a metal pipe is out of the hospital. he was trying to defend a grandmother at the state fair when the 20-year-old man attacking her turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it on all of you and tom's kids start to cry at that point because he's with his two daughters who are 10 and 12 and my niece and my sister and my brother says to my sister, betsy, go take the kids and get them out of harm's way. and the assailant says no one is going anywhere and tom says take the kids out of the way. >> police did arrest a suspect sunday and they said he was drunk arguing with a grandmother about seeing his 1-year-old

granddaughter. the wife of the south carolina governor talks openly about her husband's affair in an interview with "vogue" magazine. their relationship was almost like an addiction. she also says the man she married is not the same person who had the affair. she and the couple's four boys moved out of the governor's mansion a couple weeks ago. sanford says divorce remains an option. she says it's up to her husband to do the soul searching to see if he wants to stay married. in her words, the ball's in her court. hurricane bill is looming large and gaining strength. all the elements are there for it to become a major storm and strengthened to category 2 yesterday with winds topping at 100 miles per hour. the winds could get to 110 in the next couple days. as for where it's headed, forecasters say it's on a west, northwesterly track and could be in bermuda by the end of the week. the president of taiwan is apologizing for the government's slow response after typhoon

morakot devastated the island ten days ago. he plans sweeping changes and may hold government officials accountable. there are volunteer groups on the ground who are aiding those in need. i-reporter grace chen has sent in updates. she said the situation there is grim and they're working in small villages where many people are buried alive and thousands of people are stranded because of washed out roads and bridges and literally inaccessible. chen says her organization is doing what it can to get relief goods into some of the more isolated areas and the government is dropping supplies by helicopter. volunteers are comforting families of the deceased, preparing hot meals and cleaning up the mud and debris. they plan to rebuild schools and towns in the future. it hit on the 8th of the month dumping 102 inches of rain and killing at least 123 people in

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a man carrying an assault rifle with loaded guns, presumably loaded, outside the president's speech yesterday in phoenix. its prr the second time in the last few days that somebody openly carried a gun at a presidential event. no laws were broken, but police stood by watching. >> i come from another state where open carry is legal, but no one does it. so, the police don't really know about it and they harass people, arrest people falsely and i think that people need to get out and do it more so that they get some kind of condition to it. >> the secret service says no

one carrying a gun will get close to the president. anywhere the president appears is a federal site and regardless of any state law, guns are not allowed on federal sites. a texas judge is in court today fighting for her job. judge sharon keller faces five counts of judicial misconduct for apparently refusing to keep her court opened after 5:00 in the afternoon september 25th, 2007, the day a convicted killer michael wane rashard was executed. that prevented rashard from filing a late appeal. the judge could take the stand as early as today. the proceeding continues in san antonio. the man convicted of killing a georgia police officer 20 years ago is getting another hearing. troy davis is on death row for the 1989 killing of officer mark macphail. yesterday the supreme court said davis should get another chance to prove his innocence before being executed. witnesses testified that he was trying to help a homeless man in

savannah when davis shot him twice and fled. since the conviction, key witnesses recantered their testimony and no evidence presented at trial. >> we felt if they gave troy an evidentiary hearing there is so much doubt. >> they're focusing on troy and not looking at what my father gave up. my father lost his life. >> ranging from the pope to former president carter asked georgia to grant davis a new trial. o.j. simpson still wants his stuff back, but he has to fight fred goldman for it. lawyers will argue over who gets those collectibles, items that landed simpson in prison. a failed attempt to take the memorabilia from a las vegas hotel room. ron goldman's dad said he should get the stuff as part of the $33

million wrongful death judgment. a man accuse of stalking miley cyrus is due in court today. the 53-year-old man tried to breach security at a movie set off the florida coast in june. he has been warned to stay away. cyrus was there filming the movie "the last song. "he was secretly engaged to the 16-year-old and the teen star sent him messages through her tv show. he is now in jail on three misdemeanor charges. a cast member at walt disney world's stunt spectacular died after an accident at a rehearsal. according to local police, disney security called 911 after a performer suffered a head injury. disney said it would cancel today's indiana jones show in honor of the 30-year-old man. last month two employees died. you may remember omarosa on

the "apprentice" show. >> vivid images, but i think it's important to understand that when i taped the apprentice in 2003 and over time people change. >> her doctoral degree is expected to take two or three years. talking about your finances with your significant other can be a toughy, but hln money expert clark howard says it's a decision you need to have. >> okay. if you're married and you have a partner, how much have you talked as a couple about money? about what your goals are, what your plans are. if you're like most couples, you're not getting it together talking about things. the huge financial health found a survey that, get this, 80% plus of couples don't have it together about how they're going to plan for retirement.

even more, in a couple, there's no trust going on because only 15% of people asked said they trusted their partner to be able to handle money in the case of their death. now, there is a real lack of communication here. i want you to sit down with your wife, your husband, talk about money, talk about what your goals are, talk about how you're saving to get it done. i'm clark howard, for more things i want you to get done, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> get great consumer advice weekends from clark. he joins you saturdays and sundays at noon and 4:00 eastern right here on hln. he will help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. an oklahoma judge expected to rule shortly, in fact, in a few hours presumably on a law that forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion.

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a voice of conservative america is now silent. robert novak died today at his home at the age of 78. media analyst and host of "reliable sources" on our sister network cnn followed novak's work for many years. howard kurtz joins us live from washington. you knew him personally, did you not? >> i sure did. >> what were your impressions? >> he was a confrontational guy and he was a reporter. novak was a polarizing figure, i don't want to sugar coat that. a lot of people on the left did not like him, but he did not write a thumb sucking column. he wrote reporting and wrote his sources and took the campaign trips in an effort to write a column that actually had new information. >> were his contacts really

unrivaled? i mean, he was the go-to guy, right? >> if you wanted to know what was going on in the conservative movement in america, particularly a couple decades ago when we didn't have as many openly conservative outlets as we do now, novak was the guy to read. you could find out what was going on in terms of the internal battles of the republican party. some republicans didn't like him. he got into feuds and sometimes tended to favor the people that fed him the information that is unheard of in journalism. but he was with his partner roland evans and later on his own, indispensable reading for what was going on on the right in america. >> he wasn't a team player for the gop? >> i could recall him writing about a number of controversies where various republican honchos or, for example, during the bush administration wrote novak was not originally a supporter of the iraq war. he was not somebody who always jumped on the team, but he was

somebody who could be very kind to his sources. jack kemp was a source for years and portrayed as being a visionary and karl rove was a long-time friend of a source and that was a relationship that got novak into trouble during the valer valer valerie plame leak investigation. >> how much pressure was he under to burn those sources? >> enormous amount of pressure and he did, in fact, well, he wouldn't publicly disclose his confidential sources in that case that dragged on endlessly it seemed during the bush administration, he did tell special prosecutor patrick fitzgerald and karl rove had been his source that ultimately led or was one of several elements that led to the conviction of the vice president, former vice president's aid scooter libby. >> howard kurtz, thanks for your thoughts. bob novak, a real force in washington for decades is gone. howard, appreciate it. a $10,000 reward is

available for anybody with information that will tleed the discovery of a missing 5-year-old boy in oakland, california. police say they received very few tips since campbell disappeared monday. they fear the window of finding the 5-year-old boy alive. they don't think he could walk far on his own. he wears braces on both legs. at a candlelight vigil last night ross pleaded for the public's help. >> if you want to help keep our son in the news, don't let him become a picture on a milk carton. you want to help, that's what you do. >> ross said he voluntarily took a polygraph exam. the results have yet to be disclosed. sunday schoolteacher turned suspected killer melissa huckaby is being indicted. she broke down in court

yesterday as the judge read the indictment which was handed down by a grand jury in san joakin, california. her body was found stuffed in a suitcase that was pulled from an irrigation pond in april. charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man who police believe she had dated at one point. a trial date has not been set. it's been seven days exactly since kristi cornwell went missing in north georgia and officials say time is now the enemy. the women disappeared last tuesday as she walked along a rural road in blairsville in union county, georgia, just close to the north carolina line. her boyfriend said they were talking on a cell phone when he overheard a struggle. that cell phone, by the way, was found a couple miles from where she was last seen. police are investigating whether her former jobs may be related to the case. she was once a probation

officer. authorities say such background probes are standard, though, in missing person cases. cornwell's brother spoke with nancy grace last night about the ongoing search. >> out right now to richard cornwell. this is her brother. he's joining us from blairsville, georgia. richard, thank you for being with us. what are cops telling you tonight? >> they briefed us on their continued search today using helicopters, atvs, ground searches, horseback. they've got canine teams. they've got divers that are searching and primarily around bridges so they are continuing to throw all their assets that they can at the search. >> her brother says cornwell took firearms classes and taught self-defense. she has a 15-year-old son. don't miss nancy grace tonight. breaking news in the are kristi

cornwell case. will they spread out across georgia to find her and what about neighboring north carolina. her foeleft behind the best clu. we have learned today, in fact, just recently, that michael jackson will be laid to rest on what would have been his 51st birthday. jackson will be buried at a private ceremony at forest lawn cemetery in glendale north of los angeles on august 29th. the singer will be buried in the great mausoleum which features work of michael anglo. michael jackson died june 25th. the white house says that president obama still favors a public option in his plan to overhaul american health care. spokesman robert gibbs says rumors to the contrary has been overblown. the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius says a government-run insurance plan was not essential to health care

reform. afterwards the co-chairs wrote her a letter saying they feel a public option is essential. today, the health secretary clarified her remarks. >> all i can tell you is that sunday must have been a very slow news day. because here's the bottom line. absolutely nothing has changed. we continue to support the public option that will help lower costs, give american consumers more choice and keep private insurers honest. if people have other ideas about how to accomplish these goals, we'll look at those, too. but the public option is a very good way to do this. >> house speaker nancy pelosi says the public option will be part of the bill considered by the house. senate negotiators are considering a possible compromise plan to create co-ops nonprofit health insurance cooperatives.

later today a judge is expected to rule in oklahoma on a controversial anti-abortion law. it's one that forces women to get an ultrasound to be told the results before an abortion. critics say the law is unconstitutionally vague and doesn't spell out what doctors should tell women who are undergoing the ultrasound. proponents say it requires doctors to describe the fetus, its dimensions and any heart activity and all physical characteristics. state lawmakers passed the measure by overriding ed henry's veto. the governor argued this was unconscionable to require victims of rain and incest to undergo an ultrasound. do you think ultrasounds should be required before a woman has an abortion? does it give a woman perspective? does it infringe on her right to choose? either way, give us a call. 877-835-5456. e-mail cnn.com/hln. you'll see the your views icon or text views and your comment and name to hlntv.

standard text rates apply. hurricane bill still looming large in the atlantic. its fact, it's building strength. forecasters say it has all the elements of a major storm. strengthened to category 2  yesterday with winds topping at 100 miles per hour. winds could get to 110 miles per hour in the next cup dales. it's on a west, northwesterly track and could be near bermuda near the end of the week. abercrombie & fitch has based on flawless modals and what happens one of its employees doesn't fit?

it appears brett favre is about to unretire again. another year, another unretirement. the 39-year-old qb arrived in minnesota to meet with the viccings. not a done deal. brad childress told the ap, in a perfect world, brett favre will likely sign a one-year, $12 million deal to become viking this season. he spent 13 years with the green bay packers before playing a year with the new york yets. i'm jane velez-mitchell and here's my issue. michael vick says he's remorseful, but not i'm not buying it. he told "60 minutes" he regrets what he did. this was not a momentary lapse of judgment. this was years of torturing and killing dogs. now, that vick has been signed, let's see what he does. he could say he's sorry until he's blue in the face, but what counts is eliminating this culture of dog fighting. if he helps stop kids from

torturing animals then and only then could he be considered a changed man. stop the pr interviews and start the hard work that is needed to end this so-called sport that is really just torture. i'm jane velez-mitchell and that's my issue. >> find out what else jane has on her mind. don't miss "issue "issues" toni right here on hln. a woman born without a left forearm hads sued her employer abercrombie & fitch after it banished her from the floor to the stock room. her story is grabbing a lot of attention at cnn.com and cnn.com live's -- >> that's hard to say. >> we have to rework that. melissa long, how the heck are you? >> great. how are you? >> good story. >> fascinating story, young lady, 22 years old and because of her appearance, again, because of her forearm, which you just mentioned, chuck, she

didn't fit the chain store's ideal image. she was relegated to the stock room. she's now a law student in london and she is telling her story. she says she even tried to cover up her prosthetic arm by buying a cardigan at the request of her employer. >> they said that would be okay and could you purchase a cardigan, which i did. then they started having a problem with that cardigan and they decided that i shouldn't be seen and should work in the stock room. >> that's rian deen. the sweater violated the look policy. the look policy was used as an "excuse to hide me." they went too far in how they treated this young lady. abercrombie saying the whole thing was a misunderstanding and we have to go back to 2004 and a

case there in which the retailer settled the $141 million lawsuit in the u.s. nine minority employees were forced to work in the stock room or late shifts because of their appearance. >> appearance is so subjective. anybody, somebody, somebody offers a $1 million reward and it has to be for something big and a real-life mermaid qualifies. >> if you happen to see this image and prove it and capture it, you could be $1 million richer. you have to travel in order to find it to the beaches of israel. some residents there in the small town say they seen the figure with this girl with the tail of the fish. the claim is that the m mediterranean jumped. some locals are doubtful. still, one 15-year-old is warning that nobody believed the world was round either. eyewitness saying the mermade only shows up at sunset and something else that is up, in

addition to the curiosity, is tourism. they have set up a monitor that plays little mermaid, as well. i must tell you, chuck, i was in north scotland and your eyes start to play tricks on you. just saying. >> you know the mermaid could be a greeter at abercrombie & fitch, too. >> yes. >> melissa, great to see you. if a business closes before you get there, not usually a matter of life and death but a texas judge is on trial for closing her court at 5:00 p.m. what charges the judge is facing.

president obama turning his attention now to the stalled middle east peace process. . the man at his right is the egyptian president hossni mubarak. mubarak's first visit in five years, he had a falling out with the bush administration and now the obama administration wants egypt to step up efforts to forge a peace deal between egypt and the palestinians. two attacks rocked kabul today, including one aimed at

the presidential palace. a roadside bombing killed seven people in the capital, according to security officials. harmid karzai's palace was hit by a rocket but he wasn't hurt. the country's presidential election is in two days and the taliban has vowed to disrupt it. a texas judge today is fighting for her job in a tribunal. judge sharon keller is the presiding judge of the texas court of criminal appeals and she faces five counts of criminal misconduct to keep her court open after 5:00 in the afternoon, september 25th, 2007. the night convicted killer michael wane rashard was executed. that prevented him from fwilinga late appeal. the mayor who police say was attacked with a metal pipe is out of the hospital. we're learning more about the attack in milwaukee. tom barrett lost two front teeth and his hand was shattered. he was trying to defend a grandmoerthd at the state fair when the 20-year-old man

attacking her turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it on all of you and tom's kids start to cry at that point with his two daughters, who are 10 and 12, my niece and my sister, and my brother says to my sister, betsy, take the kids and get them out of harm's way, and the assailant says, no, nobody is going anywhere and tom says take the kids out of the way. >> no one else was hurt. police arrested a suspect sunday. they say he was drunk and arguing with the grandmother about seeing his 1-year-old daughter. we have part of a 911 call that was made as barrett was being attacked. the niece is the one who called. >> south 88th and orchard for a battery. >> what's going on there? >> it's the mayor of milwaukee, i'm sorry. >> what's going on. there's a beating on 88th and orchard. there's some guy arguing with his girlfriend and my uncle just tried to step in and the guy took a stick to him and hit him

over the head and he's bleeding all over the place. we need an ambulance. >> police say they don't think the man knew the man he attacked was the mayor of milwaukee. a man accused of stalking miley cyrus is due in court. he had been warned to stay away. cyrus was filming a movie and police say he told them he was secretly engaged in the 16-year-old teen star and that they sent each other messages. he is jailed on three misdemeanor charges, including attempting stalking. sex or sleep? what's your answer? well, according to an answer its splid about 50/50. the study was commissioned by westin ho tells. the survey found 60% of travelers say their pda has kept them from getting a good night's sleep. well, you have heard the term save the whales? well, peta is using it on a billboard. why some people are not plized. d

okay. take a look at hurricane bill looming large. building some strength in the atlantic ocean. forecasters say all the elements are there for it to become a major storm. it actually strengthened to a category 2 storm yesterday with winds whipping at 100 miles per hour. the winds could get as high as 110 in the next couple days. as for where it's headed, forecasters say it's on a west northwesterly track. it could be near bermuda by the end of the week. we have learned conservative commentator bob novak has succumbed to brain cancer. he was 78 years old. his family says he died earlier today at his home. novak was a fixture on our sister network cnn's political debate show "cross fire" and

newspaper readers followed his column in "the chicago sun ti s times" for decades. >> he was a tough reporter. old school, very tough, very tenacious, and one of those guys, if you were in my business in the cabinet, you call back these big time reporters and columnists, but novak you always had a little tremble factor because you would say something you didn't want to say. he'd get you to say something that maybe was just a little more than you had intended to say and he pushed. he pushed hard. >> i think anything people don't know about bob, don't realize, is he was very ideological guy. he was a very opinionated guy, but he was a very good reporter, and he really tried to get his stories right, and he had the best sources in the republican party. his column, his monday column in "the washington post," everybody in washington read that, but

particularly when he wrote about republicans because you knew that he had a story that no one else had, and he didn't make stuff up. he was a factual reporter. >> you might remember novak found himself at the center of the valerie plame scandal that sent louis "scooter" libby to prison. he outed him in his column. his friends called him the prince of darkness. he accepted the nickname using it for the title of his memoir. well, believe it or not, it appears brett favre is about to unretire. the 39-year-old quarterback arrived in minnesota today to meet with the vikings. coach brad childress confirmed the planned meeting in an e-mail to the associated press. asked if the plan was for favri world. favre spent 16 years with the

vikings main rival, the green bay packers, before playing for a year with the new york jets. could get interesting. sunday school teacher turned suspected killer melissa huckaby has been indicted on kidnapping, rape, and murder charges. huckaby broke down in court yesterday as a judge read the indictment which was handed down by a grand jury in san joaquin, california. she's pleaded not guilty to murdering 8-year-old sandra cantu. little girl's body was found stuffed in a suitcase pulled from an irrigation pond back in april. huckaby also pleaded not guilty to charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man whom police believe she dated at one time. a trial date hasn't been set, by the way. and michael jackson's family may file a wrongful death lawsuit against the late singer's concert promoter. a family attorney says jackson's family thinks aeg live played an active role in the last six months of his life and apparently paid for dr. conrad

murray's services. >> aeg had a very, very active role in michael's life during the last six months. it paid for the home he was renting and, more importantly for this question, it apparently paid for the services of dr. conrad murray, who we're told is under criminal investigation in connection with the decedent's death. so in that regard there's an obvious link between aeg and concerns that we have about the decedent's demise. so that's one obvious source of tension right now, the possibility of a wrongful death action being filed. it has been floated. no decision has been made whatsoever, and in that regard no decision has been made about who the possible defendants in a wrongful death action might be.

>> now, reportedly investigators believe dr. murray administered a powerful anesthetic to jackson the day he died. an eag spokesman said it would be inappropriate to speculate on any potential litigation at this time. a preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. the couple's mutilated bodies were sound saturday on a rural road in northeastern georgia. animal control has captured 13 stray dogs seep in the area, including four puppies. investigators say the dogs had been hanging around an abandoned house in the area. >> it appears at this time that she was attacked and killed by the dogs in some manner at some point, and then possibly later on he came up, but we feel sure that she was probably attacked first based on location at the scene. >> they were, you know, wonderful, dear, kind-hearted people, and we miss them and this is just terrible, terrible.

>> now, a superior court judge will decide what to do with those dogs. it's been seven days now since kristi cornwell went missing and officials say time is now the enemy. the georgia woman disappeared last tuesday as she walked along a rural road near blairsville. her boyfriend says they were talking on her cell phone when he overheard a struggle. now, that cell phone was found about two miles north of where she was last seen. police are investigating if her former jobs are related to this case. here is why. she worked at a state prison, a county sheriff's office, and was once a probation officer. cornwell's brother spoke with hln's nancy grace about it last night. >> out right now to richard cornwell, this is her brother. he's joining us from blairsville, georgia. richard, thank you for being with us. what are cops telling you tonight? >> they briefed us on their continued search today using helicopters, atvs, ground

searches, horseback. they've got canine teams. they've got divers searching the lake, primarily around bridges. so they are continuing to throw all their assets that they can at the search. >> now, her brother says cornwell also took five arms classes and that she taught self-defense. she has a 15-year-old son, by the way. nancy grace is all over this story, and she'll have more breaking news for you. we're wondering whether searchers will be spreading out across georgia to find her. her phone left behind may be the best clue here though. nancy grace investigates tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. well, the oklahoma judge is expected to make a ruling today on a law that forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. but should that be a requirement? your views on this very

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a disney world performer is dead after suffering a head injury after a rehearsal. it's the park's third death in less than two months. john has more from orlando for us right now. john, boy, what is the park saying at this point? >> well, the park at this point, they have issued a statement to the family saying that their hearts and their prayers and their thoughts are with the family, their friends, and the co-worke co-workers. this particular accident seems to have been -- we don't know the exact detail. this is a tumble role this performer had performed last night. right after the incident he was transported to the local hospital, celebration, florida, which is just across the street from disney world. they're still continuing to investigate. they did say to me this morning

exactly how long the employee, he was 30 years old, and he had worked at the indiana jones epic stunt spectacular, and they're not completely sure what caused the accident. they did notify the sheriff's office and also osha. >> okay. what are other employees there saying because when you're talking about three people dying in the last couple of months, i have to think that shakes your nerves a little bit. >> exactly. well, what had happened, the first accident in this particular round of these three was that on july 4th late into that evening, actually into july 5th, when things were closing up, the monorails were parking for the evening and there was a miscommunication. there was an accusation someone wasn't at their post, missed radioed information, but a metro

rail train backed into another one and killed a 21-year-old. they found out later that -- like i said, there were many miscommunications. at that point the national transportation safety board has begun an investigation and disney says they are providing all information that they can and the safety board is looking into the history, the training of the metro rail -- of the monorail, and they were -- this is one of the first accidents with the monorail in the history since disney had opened, and last week another employee had passed away after he had fallen the week before by slipping on water on a stage flt he was teachi teaching kids how to play with swords. when he slipped on the water, he fell and hit his head into a wall. people didn't expect he was going to pass away. he had some complications after being in the hospital for four

to five days and suddenly took a turn for the worse and passed away. >> john, thank you so much for bringing us the very latest there from orlando. we appreciate it. okay. let's talk money. fewer new homes are being built. housing starts fell 1% last month. even as demand for new homes remains a bit sluggish, there is hunger for another kind of property, foreclosures. poppy harlow from cnnmoney.com has more on that from new york. i'm sure people are thinking i'm going to go out there and get a great deal. >> christi, often it can be a great deal. we're getting more and more information about these foreclosure sales. some closing within a day of hitting the market. some really in just a matter of hours. according to foreclosures.com some of those homes in foreclosure are going into contracts less than 90 minutes after they hit the markets. it's unbelievable. one of the big drivers is the banks that are pushing the prices on these homes lower to get them off their books and out

of their hands. now, banks have to pay property taxes, the maintenance, energy bills on a home when they take it over, and those costs really pile up. what we're seeing especially happen here is this is happening more and more where prices are being pushed down in the bubble markets like california, like florida, but it's really not just happening with foreclosures when you talk about prices falling. homes in general continue to see their values fall. when you look at one real estate tracker, they said about 25% of homes on the market today have had their price cut at least once to try to attract buyers. in fresno, california, that's really accentuated with a 67% increase in price reductions just from june to august, but the deals, of course, christi, can be even better with those foreclosures, especially when the banks just want to get rid of the houses and find some buyer. >> sure because they want to try to start balancing their books. but there are risks, we know, in buying foreclosures. will you give us some idea of what we need to be looking out

for here? >> if you're eyeing a few homes for potential buys, make sure to get them inspected. you never know what kind of shape they will be in. be prepared for higher than average maintenance costs for the first three to five years on a foreclosure. think about it, right, if someone couldn't pay their mortgage they're generally not keeping up their house much either. be prepared for higher maintenance costs. and then go over the deal very, very carefully. if you're buying a foreclosed property from the bank, there can often be some confusing language in there. sometimes it works more to the bank's advantage than your advantage. i think it's definitely worth the cost of a lawyer, the fees along with that, to get some expert insight on this. they can be great deals. there's a lot to look out for. it's all explained in this article on cnnmoney.com. we're seeing more and more people scooping them up. >> poppy harlow, good to see you. thank you so much. and you can get much more business news at cnnmoney.com. a website may be a college student's only hope for a normal

life. it's an internet sos of sorts for a 22-year-old who says he may die without intervention. what he needs so he can just drive a car, ride a bus.

getting good grades isn't a problem for a tacoma, washington, college student, it's tying his own shoes or finding a chair that's holding him back. our affiliate komo introduces us to jake. >> he's always been a chunky little monkey. he never had a chance. it's like he never had a chance. >> reporter: jake country own a scale big enough to handle his weight. best guess is 650 pounds. the 22-year-old can't reach his own shoes, sit in most chairs, or fit behind a steering wheel. >> i can't drive. i can't go on planes. i can't step up onto a bus. there are very few cars i can

ride in. >> reporter: jake's mom drives him to class at pacific lutheran university. she knows what it's like to be morbidly obese. she weighed more than 500 pounds before her stomach stapling. >> every night i go to sleep and i wonder if he's going to be there tomorrow. >> reporter: jake worries tomorrow might not come. >> you know, i really can only go about 20 feet before i'm completely winded. >> reporter: and together with his friends, he's asking for the public's help. >> this is the home page. >> reporter: they've launched a foundation called my bypass surgery. >> i need help and other obese people neat help. >> reporter: the goal they say is raising ten of thousands of dollars to cover gastric bypass surgery for jake and eventually others. >> we have great insurance and it's not covered. >> reporter: at college jake has a 3.9 gpa but weight stands in his way of bigger dreams. jake doesn't just want to walk. he says he wants to run. >> run through this life with the same kind of hopes and

dreams that other folks have. >> reporter: in tacoma, komo 4 news. a bit later this afternoon a judge is expected to rule on a controversial anti-abortion law in oklahoma. this forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. now, let's talk about both sides here. critics say the law is unconstitutionally vague and doesn't spell out what doctors should tell people who are undergoing the ultrasound. proponents say it describes the doctors to describe the fetus, it's heart activity, and other physical details. state lawmakers passed this measure by overriding the governor's veto. henry required it was unconscionable to require victims of rape and incest to undergo the ultrasound. >> do you think an ultrasound should be required before a woman has an abortion? does it give a woman perspective or does it infringe on her right to choose?

e-mail cnn.com/hln or text us at hlntv. standard text rates apply. we're reading your responses throughout the day and this is your segment, so we want you to be very candid with us. you remember omarosa from the apprentice, right? she's studying now to become a minister. she says she's gone through a transformation since starring on reality tv. >> the images of me in the trump board room are very, you know, bold, vivid images, but i think it's important to understand that when i taped "the apprentice" that was in 2003 and over time people change. >> her dock toral degree is expected to take two or three years. stephon marbury smoked pot and apparently he doesn't care who knows about t he's smoking marijuana on cam ro on his own site. tmz had posted two clips.

in one he said i smoked marijuana, yes, you saw me. he says he does it occasionally. not when he's under contract or when he's driving. the former timberwolf is a free agent right now. i played last season for the celtics. dddddddddddd

well, one of byrd and melanie billings children was actually in the room with the florida couple when they were killed apparently. that's what a nurse who interviewed the boy told police. the nurse says the boy, who has autism and speech issues, told her, quote, two bad men wearing black masks came to the room and told byrd billings, quote, you're going to die. now, six men and a teenager are charged with first-degree murder and home invasion robbery in the billings' shooting deaths last month. they pleaded not guilty. an eighth suspect, a woman, faces a charge of being an access sorory after the fact. melissa huckaby has been indicted on kidnapping, rape, and murder charges. huckaby broke down in court

yesterday as a judge read the indictment which was handed down by a grand jury in california. huckaby has pleaded not guilty to murdering 8-year-old sandra cantu. the little girl's body was found stuffed in a suitcase that was pulled from an irrigation pond back in april. huckaby also pleaded not guilty to charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man who police believer she dated at one point. a trial date hasn't been set by the way. preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. the couple's mutilated bodies were found saturday on a rural road. animal control has captured 13 stray dogs seen in the area, including four puppies. investigators say the dogs have been hanging around an abandoned house in the area. >> it appears at this time that she was attacked and killed by the dogs in some manner at some point and then possibly later on

he came up. but we feel sure that she was probably attacked first based on location of the scene. >> they were, you know, wonderful, dear, kind-hearted people and we miss them and this is just terrible, terrible. >> a superior court judge will decide now what to do with those dogs, by the way. it's been seven days since kristi cornwell disappeared and officials say time is now the enemy. the georgia woman disappeared last tuesday as she was walking along a rural road near blairsville. her boyfriend says they were talking on her cell phone when he overheard a struggle. that cell phone was found two miles north of where she was last seen. police are investigating if her former jobs are related to the case. here is y she worked at a state prison, a county sheriff's office, and was once a probation officer. now, authorities say such background probes are standard in missing persons cases. cornwell's brother spoke with hln's nancy grace last night. >> out right now to richard

cornwell. this is her brother. he is joining us from blairsville, georgia. richa richard, thank you for being with us. what are cops telling you tonight? >> they've briefed us on their continued search today using helicopters, atvs, ground searches, horseback. they've got canine teams. they have divers that are searching primarily around bridges. so they are continuing to throw all their assets that they can at the search. >> her brother says cornwell also took firearms classes and she taught self-defense. she does have a 15-year-old son. nancy grace is watching for all the breaking news in this case. will searchers across georgia find her? well, her phone left behind may be the best clue. nancy grace tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on

hln. two young children are back with their mother thankfully after being abducted overnight from their home in phoenix. but police say the children, ages 2 and 11 months, were taken by heavily armed men during this home invasion. there's the 2-year-old. they believe the case started as an attempted robbery. the children were eventually dropped off at a house in south phoenix, but the suspects had not been caught here. the mother was not hurt. the children appear, as you can see, to be okay. police do not think that the mother knew those suspects though. much of the debate over health care reform has centered on a government-funded plan, a so-called public option, but over the weekend it seemed that the white house was backing away from that. then again maybe not. deputy political director paul steinhauser is in washington with the latest. this keeps going back and forth and back and forth. where do they stand? do we know? >> kind of a controversy here. have they packed off the public option or not?

it started on "state of the union" with john king. kathleen sebelius was a guest and she said that the public option was not the essential element in health care reform. this morning she had a very different opinion. take a listen. >> all i can tell you is that sunday must have been a very slow news day because here's the bottom line. absolutely nothing has changed. we continue to support the public option that will help lower costs, give american consumers more choice, and keep private insurers honest. if people have other ideas about how to accomplish these goals, we'll look at those, too, but the public option is a very good way to do this. >> the public option has really become the lightning rod in this big battle we have seen playing out at town halls across the country over health care reform. republicans, they're pretty much dead set against the public

option. they say it will take away -- it will basically mean government control and it will force private insurance companies out of business. democrats, there's been a lot of pushback after this coverage over the weekend. a lot of pushback by liberals saying a public option must be in whatever health care plan is finally agreed upon. >> we keep talking about sebelius, about you she's not the only one that's been saying the public option might be off the table, is that right? >> you are absolutely right this. started in saturday on colorado. president obama has holding a town hall in grand junction, colorado, and he said at the time and during that town hall the public option, whether we have it or don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform. the next day he had a 1,200 op-ed in "the new york times" and the public option did not come up once. you couple that with what sab l sebelius said. that's why the media was really saying has the white house walked away from the public option? just moments ago at the white house briefing the press secretary robert gibbs said, listen, there is no change. we've been saying this kind of thing for months now.

we have not said yes or no on a public option. nothing is final. >> okay. well, hopefully we'll figure out who is final in the next few weeks, paul steinhauser. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sure. well, a man carrying an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying guns outside president obama's speech to veterans yesterday in phoenix. this is the second time in the last few days someone openly carried a gun at a presidential event. want to point out no laws were broken, but police were very close. >> i come from another state where open carry is legal, but no one does it, so the police don't really know about it and they harass people, arrest people falsely, and i think that people need to get out and do it more so they get kind of conditioned to it. >> police were watching closely in phoenix. the secret service says no one carrying a gun is going to get close to the president. anywhere the president appears is a federal site while he's

there. regardless of any state laws guns are not allowed on federal sites. conservative tiff commentator robert novak has succumbed to brain cancer. he was 78 years old. his family says he died earlier today at home. novak was a fixture on our sister network cnn's political debate show "cross fire." newspaper readers, too, followed his column in the "chicago sun times" for decades. you might remember he found himself at the center of the valerie plame scandal. he outed the cia operative in his column in 2003. colleagues called him the prince of darkness and he used the nickname for the title of his memoir. have you heard about this yet? not making it up. it appearses brett favre is about to unretire yet again. the 39-year-old quarterback arrived in minnesota today to meet with the vikings. the coach confirmed the planned meeting in an e-mail to the associated press. asked if the plan was to sign favre, childress replied, in a

perfect world. yahoo! sports says favre will likely sign a one-year $12 million deal to become a viking this season. favre spent 16 years with the vikings main rifle, the green bay packers, before playing for a year with the new york jets. we'll keep you posted. you may soon be able to take your favorite movies from the big screen and put them on a really, really small screen. we will look at a new service that will let you catch flicks on your cell phone.

all right. that is hurricane bill you're looking at looming large. building strength, too, in the atlantic ocean. forecasters say all the elements are there for this to become a major storm.

it did strengthen to a category 2 storm yesterday with winds now whipping at 105 miles per hour. as for where it's headed? well, there's the trajectory for you. forecasters say it's on a west-northwesterly track, could be near bermuda by the end of the week but we'll keep you informed. firefighters are making some progress against a wildfire in california's sierra nevada foothills today. the fire started friday when a hawk hit a power line. it's 80% contained now. firefighters hope to have it fully contained by the end of the week. officials let most of the families who had to evacuate return home yesterday, but nearly a dozen wildfires are still burning in california. state officials say so far battling those fires has cost the state $60 million. those firefighters working really hard right now. you may soon be able to watch your favorite movies on your cell phone. blockbuster has announced a new plan that would let people with certain motorola phones download films. blockbuster has been struggling to find new revenue streams because of the popularity of

online videos and services like netflix. it hasn't said when the new service will be available nor mass it revealed how much it will cost. well, a woman born without a left forearm has successfully sued her employer. retail giant abercrombie & fitch for discrimination after it banished her from the floor to the stock room. her story is grabbing a lot of attention at cnn.com and dotcom live's nicole lipin will fill us in. >> this is generating a lot of discussion on cnn.com right now. you have been inside an abercrombie & fitch store. you have seen the big posters of those half naked models with impossibly flawless figures. rian dean, as you said, has a prosthetic arm. she was first told that she had to cover up that arm. so then she bought a cardigan to try and conform to what her boss

wanted. but even that wasn't okay. >> i was originally asked to wear and they said it wasn't okay. could i purchase a cardigan, which i did. they started having a problem with the cardigan. they decided i shouldn't be seen and should work in the stock room. >> she's a 22-year-old london law student. her bosses say she was moved because that sweater violated their look policy. dean says that the look policy was just used as an excuse to hide her away in the stock room. abercrombie has been pretty blatant about its emphasis on looks as we're seeing right now. its ceo even is quoted as saying we go for the cool kids. a lot of people don't belong and can't belong. are we exclusionary? absolutely. but a british panel ruled that they just went too far in the way they treated dean.

she was awarded about $15,000 in a discrimination case. abercrombie says the whole thing was a misunderstanding, but, christi, you recall the retailer also settled $41 million case here in the states where nine minority employees were also sent to the stock room away from actual contact with customers. >> wow. that is something. okay. here is something else. i don't know what to believe with this. anytime someone is offering a $1 million reward you think, okay, it's got to be for something big, but can you find it i guess in this case is the key question. >> yeah. the keyword there is if. if you can find a mermaid and if you can find it in the seaside down of israel right here haifa, this is causing a whole bunch of buzz. there are folks there who claim they have seen a mediterranean mermaid smile, jump, and disappear. all right. not everyone is convinced.

big shocker there. one 15-year-old girl, i knew you would love this, christi, warns there was a time when nobody believed the world was round either, so there a child is being an optimist. witnesses say the mermaid only shows up at sunset. something else to consider, christi, just the realist in all of us, tourism is way up there because of this according to the mayor. yeah, they're even showing little mermaid on the outdoor screen there that has been set up. they're really milking this story. >> obviously, some creative marketing, but who knows? we'll keep our minds open until we're proven otherwise. thank you so much, nicole. >> you're welcome. let me ask you, would you choose sex or sleep? the numbers are in. find out if you're in the majority. plus, an nba player smokes dope on his internet reality show, but he says it's okay for him to light up. wait until you hear why.

all right. we have this just in, folks, and there's the video to prove it. brett favre spotted practicing

with minnesota vikings wearing number 4 jersey there. when asked about, it the team says, yes, favre has agreed to play for minnesota. insiders have expected had i am to come out of retirement for a two-year deal worth anywhere from $10 million to $12 million. two months ago favre said he would not return, but many will remember certainly that he said that before and again there is the video. he's in jersey number 4. apparently playing for the minnesota vikings. well, o.j. simpson apparently still wants his stuff back, but he's going to have to fight fred goldman for it. lawyers are due in court in santa monica, california, today to argue over who should get the items that landed simpson in prison. he's serving a 9 to 33-year sentence for a failed attempt to take that memorabilia from dealers in a las vegas hotel room. one of the dealers says he is the rightful owner. ronald goldman's dad says he should get the stuff as part of the $33 million wrongful death judgment against simpson.

nba player stephon marbury smokes pot and doesn't care who knows about it. he's one-upping tmz by smoking marijuana on camera on hismarbu smokes marijuana on his own website. tmz posted two clips that appeared to she him smoking a joint. he says "i smoke marijuana, yep, you saw me." . he says he does it occasionally and not when he's under contract or while he's driving. he played last season for the celtics. the mayor, who milwaukee police say was beaten with a metal pipe is out of the hospital right now. we're also learning more about saturday's attack, though. milwaukee mayor tom barrett lost two front teeth, we've learned, his hand is shattered. he was trying to defend a grandmother at a state fair when police say the 20-year-old man attacking her turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun. i'm not afraid to use it on all

of you. tom's kids started to cry. my niece and my sister. my brother says to my sister, betsy, go take the kids and get them out of harm's way. the assail i can't said, no, no one is going anywhere. >> police did arrest a suspect on sunday saying he was drunk and arguing with the grandmother about seeing his 1-year-old daughter. >> later this afternoon a is expected to rule on al controversial anti-abortion law in oklahoma. it forced them to get an ultrasound before the abortion. critics y the law is constitutionally vague and doesn't spell out what doctors should tell women who are undergoing the ultra sound. proponents say it requires doctors to describe the fetus, dimensions, heart activity and other details. state lawmakers passed the measure by overriding brad henry's veto. henry argued it was to require

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the former cohost of cnn's ground breaking show "cross fire" has died. what colleagues are saying about robert novak. two young kids reunited with their mom after being kidnapped by armed men overnight in their home in phoenix. should a woman be legally required to have an ultrasound before having an abortion? it could become the law in oklahoma today. tell us what you think. the latest from hln news and views. we begin with breaking sports news. the minnesota vikings say they do have a deal with brett favre to bring the famous nfl quarterback back to the playing field. he's already practicing with the

vikings. the team said, yeah, brett favre has agreed to play for minnesota. he's expected to come out for a two-year deal worth from $10 million to $12 million. only two months ago brett favre said he would not return. bob novak died after a long battle with brain cancer at age 78. he died at his home in washington. novak was a fixture on our sister network cnn's political debate show "cross fire." they followed novak's column in the chicago sun times for decades. >> i think anything people don't know about bob or realize, he was a very intellectual guy. he was a very opinionated guy.

he was a very good reporter. he really tried to get his sources washington. his column in the "washington post." everybody in washington read that. particularly when he wrote about republicans. you knew that he had a story that no one else had. and he didn't make stuff up. he was a factual reporter. >> you might remember novak found himself at the center of a scandal that sent libby to prison. he outed the operative in his column back in 2003. french called novak the prince of darkness. he used it for the title of his memoir. michael jackson will be laid to rest on what would have been his 51st birthday. he'll be buried at forest lawn cemetery in glenn dale on august 28th. a family spokesman said the singer will be buried in the singer's great mosolium. jackson died on june 25th. his family may file a wrongful death lawsuit against the late

singer's concert pro moteer. a fame attorney says jackson's family thinks aeg live played an active role during the last six months of his life and paid for dr. conrad murray's services. murray is at the center of a criminal investigation into jackson's death. that doctor, conrad murray, now appears in an internet video. he says he's afraid to answer the phone or return an e-mail. he's talking for the first time since the pop legend's death in the video posted on youtube. >> i'm afraid to return phone calls or use my e-mail. therefore, i recorded this video to let all of you know that i have been receiving your messages. i have not been able to thank you personally, which as you know is not normal for me. your messages give me strength and courage and keep me going.

>> reporte . >> authorities say he may have administered propofol to the pop singer on the day he died. one of byrd and melanie's children was in the bedroom when the florida couple was killed. that's what a nurse who interviewed the boy told police. the boy who has autism and speech issues said two bad men wearing black masks came to the room and told byrd billings you're going to die. six men and a teenager are charged with first-degree murder and home invasion robbery in the billings shooting death last month. they've all pleaded not guilty. autopsy reports show the couple was shot multiple times. an eighth suspect, pamela long wiggins faces accessory charges. the kids, age 2 and 11 months were kidnapped by heavily armed men in a home invasion. the children were taken after their mother was unable to meet

demands for money. the kids were dropped off at a house in south phoenix five hours later. the four suspects have not been caught. police don't think the mother knew the suspects. it's been seven days since kristi cornwell went missing. officials are now worried they're going to run out of time. the georgia woman disappeared a week ago today as she walked along a rural road in georgia county, florida. her boyfriend says they were talking on the cell phone when he overheard a struggle. that phone was found two miles north of where she was last seen. police are investigating if her former job may be related to the case. she worked at a state prison. she was once a probation officer. authorities say such background probes are standard in missing persons cases. cornwell's brother spoke with hln's nancy grace about the ongoing search last night. >> out right now to richard cornwell. this is her brother. he's joining us from blaresville, georgia. what are cops telling you tonight?

>> caller: they briefed us on their continued search today, using helicopters, atvs, ground searches, horseback. they've got canine teams. they've got divers that are searching the lake. they are continuing to throw all their assets at the search. >> cornwell taught self-defense. she has a 15-year-old son. nancy grace has all the breaking news in the kristi cornwell case. will searchers being spreading out across georgia to find her? what's the latest? her phone left behind what may be the best clue. it's all tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern here on hln. preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs.

the couple's mutilated bodies were found saturday along a rural road east of athens, georgia. animal control captured 13 stray dogs seen in the area, including four puppies. the dogs had been hanging around an abandon house in the area. >> she was attacked and killed by the dogs in some manner. then possibly later on he came up, but we feel sure that she was probably attacked first based on locations of the scene. >> they were wonderful, dear, kindhearted people. we miss them. this is terrible. >> a judge will decide what to do with the dogs. hurricane bill looming large, getting stronger in the atlantic ocean. chad myers joins us with a look at the projected path and how much stronger it could get. chad, what's the latest? >> we think it's going to get to be a category 3.

it only takes another six miles per hour to get to the category 3. i think that's pretty much a no brainer considering now that it's out all by itself. we talk about this. are there other storms around? no. this thing is in the perfect sweet spot for now. there's a sweet spot. there are the numbers. 15, 9, and 51. where the heck is that? that is still way out in the middle of the atlantic ocean. in fact, from san juan and antiga, an aircraft hunter in there. flying around, looking for it. found a wind 79 miles per hour. even found a 97 knot gust for a while. still a very significant storm. something else, although bill is a big storm and it will make its way up around bermuda and maybe a 2% chance of affecting the u.s. i believe what's coming back from what was tropical depression and tropical storm

ana, i believe it's coming back. winds out of the east in miami. this could affect most of south florida the next couple of days and maybe make its way into the gulf of mexico, chuck. if that happens, that would be a regeneration of the storms. this water is so warm. it could certainly come back. we'll see where it goes if it gets into the gulf. >> could reform. >> absolutely. >> chad, appreciate it. a judge in oklahoma is expected to rule on a controversial state anti-abortion law that forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. critics say the law is vague and doesn't spell out what doctors should tell women undergoing the ultrasound. proponents say it requires doctors to describe the fetus, it's dimensions, heart activity and other physical details and characteristics. state lawmakers passed the measure by overriding governor brad henry's veto. the governor ordered it

unconscionable. do you think an ultrasound should be required before a woman has an abortion? does it give her perspective? does it infringe on her right to choose? or text views to hlntv. mark sanford's wife jenny is opening up about her husband's affair.

firefighters may be making headway in the nevada foothills in california. the fire began friday. a hawk hit a power line. it's now 80% contained. firefighters hope to have it fully contained by the end of the week. officials let families return

home yesterday. there are nearly a dozen fires burning across southern california. so far battling the fires has cost the state $60 million. the mayor who was beaten with a metal pipe is out of the hospital. we're learning more about the attack that occurred at the state fair. he was trying to defend a grandmother at the state fair. police say the 20-year-old man attacking her then turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it on all of you. tom's kids start to cry at this point. he's with his two daughters who are 10 and 12, my niece, and my sister. and my brother says to my sister, betsy, go take the kids and get them out of harm's way. and the assailant says no, nobody is going anywhere. tom says, take the kids out of the way. >> police arrested the suspect on sunday.

he was drunk, arguing with his grandmother. jenny sanford says her husband isn't a bad person. she talks about her husband's affair in an interview with "vogue" magazine. her husband was obsessed with a woman in argentina. it was almost like an addiction. she also says the man she married isn't the same person who had the affair. she and the couple's four boys moved out of the governor's mansion two weeks ago. she says divorce remains an option but it's up to her husband to do the soul searching. in her words the ball is in his court. a cast member died after an accident at a rehearsal. that makes him the third disney world employee to die in seven weeks. according to local police disney security phoned 911 after a performer suffered a head injury. they will cancel the show today. last month two employees died. one suffered injuries in a bad

onstage fall during a performance at the magic kingdom. if a business closes before you get there, it's usually not a matter of life or death. not always. a judge in texas is now before a tribunal for closing her court at 5:00 in the afternoon. find out what charges the judge is facing.

the white house is trying to reclaim the managing of a message. it says president obama still favors a public option in his plan to overhaul health care. spokesman robert gibbs says rumors to the contrary have been overblown. on sunday kathleen sebelius said a government-run insurance plan wasn't essential to health care reform. afterwards the cochairs wrote her a letters saying they do feel a public option is essential. today the health secretary clarified her remarks saying the administration supports the public option. also that they're open to hearing about other ideas of how

to lower health care costs and give americans more choice. today, though, the president turned his attention to the stalled peace process in the middle east. he met with egypt's president at the white house and thanked him for his efforts to bring palestinians back to the bargaining table. he said israels must freeze settlements in the west bank for talks can resume. the obama administration asked israel to do the same thing. two attacks rocked afghanistan's capital kabul today. a roadside bomb killed seven people. the president's palace was hit by a rocket a few hours earlier. karzai wasn't hurt. the taliban has vowed to disrupt the election. the man convicted of killing a georgia police officer is getting another hearing. troy davis is on death row for the 1989 killing.

yesterday the supreme court said davis should get another chance to prove his innocence before he's executed. witnesses testified that he was trying to help a homeless man when davis shot him twice and fled. since the conviction key witnesses have recanted their testimony and no physical evidence was presented at trial that linked him to the crime. defense attorneys said they should get a new trial. >> they would see there's so much doubt in this case. he should not be executed. >> it's frustrating. not looking at what my father gave up. my father lost his life. >> prominent figures ranging from the pope to president carter asked georgia too grant davis a new trial. a judge in texas is fighting for her job today. judge sharon keller is the presiding judge of the texas court of criminal appeals. she faces five counts of judicial misconduct. apparently she refused to keep

her court open after 5:00 in the afternoon, september 25th, 2007, on the night convicted killed we are executed. that prevented him from filing a late appeal. junior college keller could take the stand as early as today in san antonio. talking your finances over with your significant other can be tough, but money expert clark howard says it's a discussion you need to have. here's clark. >> okay. if you're married, if you have a partner, how much have you talked as a couple about money? about what your goals are? what your plans are? if you're like most couples, you're not getting it together talking about things. it's a huge financial fidelity in investments present a survey that found 80-plus percent of couples don't have it together about how to plan for retirement. in a couple there's no trust

going on. only 15% of people asked said they trusted their partner to be able to handle money in the case of their death. now there is a real lack of communication here. i want you to sit down with your wife, your husband, talk about money talk about what your goals are. talk about how you're saving to get it done. i'm clark howard. for more things i want you to get done go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> right here saturdays and sundays at noon and 4:00 eastern don't miss clark howard. >> an andy warhol painting of michael jackson goes on the auction block today. a 1984 portrait is set at $800,000. but it could go for millions. the new york gallery handling the bidding didn't say who is selling the painting. it's one of five jackson warhol

paintings. an oklahoma judge expected to make a ruling shortly on a law that forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. should that be a requirement? ñ

michael jackson's doctor is speaking out. he appears in a brand new internet video. just hit the internet in the last few minutes. he says he's been telling the truth. dr. conrad murray talking for the first time since the pop legend's death. here's a chunk of the video posted on youtube. >> i want to thank all of my patients and friends who have sent such kind e-mails, letters, and messages to let me know of your support and prayers for me and my family. because of all that is going on i am afraid to return phone calls or use my e-mail. therefore i recorded this video to let all of you know that i have been receiving your

messages. i have been not been able to thank you personally, which as you know, is not normal for me. your messages give me strength and courage and keep me going. they mean the world to me. please don't worry. as long as i keep god in my heart and you in my life i will be fine. i have done all i could do i told the truth, and i have faith the truth will prevail. god bless you and thank you. >> that was apparently taped a week ago in houston. authorities were investigating him in connection with the june 25th death of michael jackson. he was at the residence at the time. they say the doctor may have administered a powerful anesthet anesthetic. he will be buried at forest lawn cemetery in glendale on august

29th. he will be buried at the great moselium. breaking sports news in. the minnesota vikings have confirmed they have a deal to bring brett favre back to the nfl. the 39-year-old is already practicing with the minnesota vikings, wearing jersey number 4. they face the chiefs this weekend. when asked about this the team says yes, brett favre has agreed to play for minnesota. insiders expected him to come out of retirement for a two-year deal worth between $10 million and $12 million. only two months ago he said he would not return. breaking news in the wrong-way crash in new york. the one that left eight people dead in west chester county last month. the state prosecutor decided there will be no criminal charges after a meeting with state police and victim's residents. authorities say she was drunk

and high on marijuana when she drove the wrong way. her mini slam slammed into an suv. she was killed along with her 2-year-old daughter, three nieces, and three men in the suv. conservative commentator bob novak lost the battle with brain cancer. the 78-year-old died today at his home in washington. he was a fixture on our sister network cnn's political debate show "crossfire." news readers followed his columns for decades and even his political opponents say they admired his connection, as did his friends. >> anything that people don't know or realize about bob, he was a very ideological guy. he was a very opinionated guy. but he was a very good reporter. he really tried to get his stories right. he had the best sources in the republican party. his sunday column in the "washington post," everybody in washington read that.

particularly when he wrote about the republicans. you knew that he had a story that no one else had. he didn't make stuff up. he was a factual reporter. >> he was in the center of the scandal that sent libby to prison. he outed him in a column in 2003. friends call novak the prince of darkness. he accepted the nickname. he used it for the title of his memoir. in the caribbean, in the open atlantic, that's hurricane bill. it's looming large. it's building strength in the atlantic. forecasters say it has all the elements to make a major storm. it's already strengthened to category 2. forecasters say the winds could get stronger in the next few days. still on a west, north westerly track. could be near or over bermuda by the end of the week. sunday schoolteacher turned suspected killer on rape and murder charges.

huckaby broke down in court yesterday as the judge read the indictment. she's pleaded not guilty to murdering 8-year-old sandra cantu. her body was stuffed in a suitcase. she pleaded not guilty to charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man police believe she dated at one point. a trial date has not been set. it's been seven days exactly since kristi cornwell went missing. officialing say time is now the enemy. the georgia woman disappeared last tuesday as she walked along a rural road in georgia. her boyfriend says they were talking on her cell phone when he overheard a struggle. that cell phone was found about two miles north of where she was last seen. police were investigating if her former jobs may be related to her disappearance. she worked at a state prison, a county sheriff's office. she took firearms classes and taught self-defense. she has a 15-year-old son. nancy grace has the latest.

she's been working the story all day. the latest on the apparent abduction of kristi cornwell. now the search has spread to north carolina. what else is going on? her phone left behind a lot of clues apparently. nancy grace has it all tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern here on hln. two young kids are back with their mother after being kidnapped from their home early this morning. javier soto is in phoenix with more on their abduction and how the children were found. >> how they doing, officer? >> reporter: found safe. four and a half hours after these two kids were kidnapped. >> somebody beating on the door. and i come and look through the curtain, and saw them two babies out there screaming their head off. >> he saw the brother and sister sitting on this rock outside his home, scared and all alone. >> i didn't know what to do. i woke my wife up. we brought them inside, and --

>> reporter: little did he know 2-year-old jesus and his 11-month-old sister were part of an amber alert this morning after four suspects busted into the home demanding money, then taking the two children. >> we're very concerned about the welfare of these two little children. the girl is 11 months old. obviously jesus is 2 years old. we want to make sure the suspects understand they need to drop the kids off at a safe place. >> reporter: fortunately the suspects did just that. leading to this reunion with worried family members. and although the children are now safe, those responsible are still on the loose. >> by the time i looked nobody was out here. >> the suspects are described as african-american men seen leaving in a japanese import. either a honda or toyota. if you have any information you're urged to contact police. the good news is the kids are back with their mother. i'm javier soto for hln.

a $10,000 reward posted for any information about a missing 5-year-old boy from oakland. since hasanni campbell disappeared last monday police have received very few tips. they're worried the window to find the youngster is running out. his foster father left him in a parked car. since he has cerebral palsy and wears braces on both legs he couldn't have walked far on his own. firefighters are making headway in the fight against a wildfire. a hawk hit a power line and the sparks created the fire. it's now 80% contained. firefighters hope to have it fully contained by the end of the week. there are nearly a dozen wildfires burning in california. battling the fire has cost the state $60 million so far. any moment we expect a ruling from a judge in oklahoma about an antiabortion ultrasound

law. critics say it's unconstitutionally vague and it doesn't spell out what doctors should tell women who are undergoing the ultrasound. proponents say it requires doctors to describe the fetus, its dimensions, heart activity, other physical characteristics. state lawmakers originally passed the measure by overriding brad henry's veto. the governor argued it was unconscionable to require rape and incest victims to undergo the ultrasound. you may be able to take your favorite movies for the big screen and put them on the really, really small screen. a new service to let you catch flicks on your cell phone.

well, this surprised us. you think video games are only for kids? you'll be surprised to learn the average videogame player in the u.s. is 35. while playing computer games may seem like an inaqueous past time. >> reporter: video games are no longer for kids. scientists say some adult players may be playing a dangerous game with their health. in a study in the october issue of the american journal of preventive medicine scientists analyze survey data from 500 seattle-area adults age 19 to 90. researchers looked at whether subjects played video games and how often they played video games, used the internet, and watched tv or dvds. 45% of those studies say they

play video games. doctors found how the games affected an adult's health depended on a player's gender. female players had higher depression rates and poorer quality of life than women who didn't play the gims. male players had higher bmis or body mass indexes and used it for social reasons. the game playing could lead to sedentary lifestyles, which could lead to obesity or mental health issues. they also noted those who played video games used the internet more for social interaction and many adult game players weren't connected to the real world. for today's health minute, i'm susan hendricks. you may soon be able to watch your favorite movies on your cell phone. speaking of being sedentary. blockbuster announced a new plan to let people with certain phones download films. blockbuster has been struggling to find new rev new streams because of services like

netflix. it hasn't said when the new service will be available or how much it will cost. the president of taiwan is apologizing for the government's response after typhoon morakot devastated the island. he plans sweeping changes and may hold government officials accountable. there are volunteer groups on the ground who are meeting needs. grace chen has sent in updates of the efforts of the foundation to which he belongs. she says the siftuation is grim. many people are buried alive and standed because of what washed-out roads and bridges. they're doing what they can to get relief into isolated areas. the government is dropping supplies by helicopter. volunteers are preparing hot meals, providing medical assistance, cleaning up mud and debris. they plan to rebuild homes and school in the future.

it dumps 102 inches of rain and killed 123 people in the country. many thanks to grace chen for a great i-report, a perspective we never would have had. when you have pictures or video of breaking news or great stories from you are, go to ireport.com and click on the upload now link. it works all over the world. get complete instructions on how to submit your stories. what could possibly be so valuable about a bunch of old footballs and neckties? the footballs are from o.j. simpson's glory days. he wore the ties during his murder trial. who gets it all?

o.j. still wants his stuff back. he's going to have to fight fred goldman for it. the two have been fighting for years over assets, all of them. lawyers appearing in a court in california to argue over who should get the items that landed him, o.j. simpson, in prison. he's serving 9 to 33 years for a failed attempt to take memorabilia from dealers at a las vegas hotel room. one of the dealers says he is the rightful owner. ron goldman says he should get

the stuff as part of a $33 million judgment. a man accused of stalking teen star miley cyrus is in jail. he has been warned to stay away from there. cyrus was there filming a movie. police say he told hem he was secretly engaged to the 16-year-old. and that the teen star sent him messages through her tv show. he's in jail on three misdemeanor charges including attempted stalking. fewer new homes are being built. housing starts fell 1% last month. even as demand for new homes replain sluggish, there is hunger for another kind of property, foreclosures. poppy harlow from cnnmoney.com has more on that from new york. bargain hunting, right? >> exactly right, chuck. what's interesting is we're seeing the foreclosure trend speeding up more and more. some markets where the homes are selling in a day or in a matter of hours even. according to foreclosures.com,

some homes in foreclosure are in contract to be purchased less than 90 minutes after they hit the market. the big driver is the banks. they're driving the price of the homes further and further down in order to get them off their hands. banks have to pay property taxes. they have to pay the maintenance and energy bills when they seize a home. the more they have to pay out. this is happening especially in hard hit markets with a lot of foreclosures like california and like florida. but it's actually not just foreclosures. what we're seeing is evidence that home prices are being driven down. really across the board. there's a real estate tracker that says that about 25% of homes on the market right now across the u.s. have experienced at least one price cut. in fresno, california, that's ak sen -- 67% of homes seeing a price cut more than once from june to august. the foreclosures can be the best tout there. >> so what are the risks of

buying a foreclosure? >> huge risks. you might get a good deal. you have to have the home inspected carefully. it may not have been to when yo. also, be ready for costs to keep up the house to be higher for generally the first three to five years on a foreclosure. if you think about it, someone couldn't pay their mortgage, they're probably not replacing the furnace or keeping up the home that well. also, look over the terms of the deal really well before you buy a foreclosed property because sometimes when the banks are doing these deals, they can put in language that you might not understand or may be to their advantage, not yours, so it's worth the cost of a lawyer to look them over. more and more deals out there and the take-away from this really is people are picking them up in a matter of days, if not hours. >> they're pretty much sold as-is, right? >> reporter: oh, yeah, take it or leave it. >> leaky roof, you fix it. poppy, thanks. great to see you. all the business news up to the minute on cnnmoney.com. check it out. let's check out wall street

today. a better than expected property report and forecasts from home depot, speaking of home building, and bright spots in the housing market overall gave stocks a little boost today. in fact, this may be session high right here, dow up around 90 points with ten minutes to go in the trading day. you might remember omarosa from "the apprentice." she's now studying to be a minister. she has gone through a complete transformation since starring in that reality television show, she says. >> the images of me in the trump boardroom are very bold, vivid images but i think it's important to understand that when i taped "the apprentice" that was in 2003 and over time, people change. >> her doctoral degree is expected to take two to three years. does the leader of the right have two left feet? a conservative famous for his tactics in the house of representatives joins a parade of politicos kicking up their heels. the surprising pick to join "dancing with the stars."

brett favre is spotted on the vikings practice field. is the quarterback making a comeback again? this doctor was with michael jackson when he died. he's finally speaking out. what he has to say about the pop legend's death. and should a woman be legally required to have an ultrasound before having an abortion? the controversial issue could become law today in oklahoma. tell us what you think. here's the latest from hln news and views. i'm richelle carey. thank you so much for your time. well, this just in. the minnesota vikings say they have a deal to bring brett favre back to the nfl. 39 years old, he's already practicing with the minnesota vikings, wearing, you can see

it, the number 4 jersey. when asked about it, the team says yes, favre has agreed to play for minnesota. now, insiders had expected favre to come out of retirement for a two-year deal worth $10 million to $12 million. just two months ago, favre said he would not be returning, if you've been keeping track of all that. this is something we have been keeping track of. a $10,000 reward is available for anyone with information that will lead to a missing 5-year-old boy from oakland, california. police say they have received very few tips since hasanni campbell disappeared last monday. they figure the window to find him alive may be closing. hasanni went missing after his foster father left him in a parked car. authorities don't think hasanni could have walked far on his own because he has cerebral palsy and wears braces on both legs. at a candle light vigil last night, roth pleaded for the public's help. >> if you want to help, keep our son in the news.

don't let him become a picture on a milk carton box five years that you never find. you want to help, that's what you do. >> he says he took a voluntary polygraph test. those results have not been released publicly. two young children are back with their mother after being kidnapped from their home early this morning. phoenix police say the children were taken when the mother was unable to meet their demands for money. these children, 2 and 11 months old, were dropped off at a house in south phoenix about five hours later. they appear to be okay and police are still looking for the kidnappers. a 10-year-old boy charged in the alleged gang rape of an 8-year-old girl will be released from juvenile detention and placed in a therapeutic foster care home. a judge in phoenix says the boy is incompetent to stand trial and has to be educated about the juvenile justice system before

he can be tried. police say the boy and three others between the ages of 10 and 14 lured the girl into an empty shed last month and brutally assaulted her. authorities say it was one of the most horrific cases of sexual assault on a child they had ever seen. the girl and the suspects are all liberian immigrants. preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. the couple's mutilated bodies were found saturday along a road in northeastern georgia. the oglethorpe county sheriff says animal control captured 13 stray dogs in the area, including four puppies. they had been hanging around an abandoned house in the area. >> it appears she was attacked and killed by the dogs in some manner. at some point, and then possibly later on, he came up but we feel sure that she was probably attacked first based on location

on the scene. >> they were, you know, wonderful, dear, kind-hearted people. we miss them. we miss them. terrible. terrible. >> a superior court judge will decide what to do with those dogs. the mayor who milwaukee police say was beaten with a metal pipe is out of the hospital. we are learning more about that attack on saturday. milwaukee mayor tom barrett lost two front teeth, also his hand was shattered. he was trying to defend a grandmother at the state fair when police say 20-year-old man attacking her turned on barrett. >> the guy says i have a gun and i'm not afraid to use it on all of you, and tom's kids start to cry at that point because he's with his two daughters, who are 10 and 12, my niece and my sister, and my brother says to my sister betsy, go take the kids and get them out of harm's way, and the assailant says no, nobody's going anywhere. tom says take the kids out of the way.

>> wow. can you imagine how terrifying? no one else was hurt in the attack. police arrested the suspect on sunday. they say he was drunk and arguing with the grandmother about seeing his 1-year-old daughter. jenny sanford says her husband is not a bad person. the wife of south carolina governor mark sanford talking openly about her husband's affair. this is all in an interview with "vogue" magazine. sanford says her husband was obsessed with the woman in argentina, the relationship was almost like an addiction. she also says the man she married is not the same person who had this affair. she and the couple's four boys moved out of the governor's mansion two weeks ago. sanford says divorce is an option. she says it's up to her husband to do the soul searching to see if he wants to stay married. in her words, the ball is in his court. president obama turns his attention from health care reform today to the stalled peace process in the middle east. he met with the egyptian president at the white house and thanked him for his efforts to

bring israelis and palestinians back to the bargaining table. the obama administration has asked israel to do the same thing. so far that has not happened. conservative commentator bob novak has died after a long battle with brain cancer. he was 78. the family says he died today at his home in washington. novak was a fixture on our sister network, cnn's political debate show, "crossfire." newspaper readers followed his column for decades and even his political opponents said they admired his connections. >> i think of anything people don't know about bob, don't realize, he was very ideological guy, very opinionated guy. he was a very good reporter. he really tried to get his stories right and he had the best sources in the republican party. when his monday column in the

"the washington post" everybody in washington read that, particularly when he wrote about republicans because you knew he had a story no one else had. he didn't make stuff up. he was a factual reporter. >> you might remember, novak found himself at the center of the valerie plame scandal that sent louis "scooter" libby to prison. he outed the cia operative in his column in 2003. friends called novak the prince of darkness and he accepted the nickname, using it for the title of his memoir. an oklahoma judge could make a ruling today on a law that requires women to get an ultrasound before an abortion, but should that be a requirement? your views on this very sensitive issue. and michael jackson's doctor appears in a new internet video and says he told the truth. dr. conrad murray is talking for the first time since the pop legend's death. this video is posted on youtube.

well, firefighters are making some progress against this wildfire in california's foothills. the fire started friday when a hawk hit a power line. it's about 80% contained right now. firefighters hope to have it fully contained by the end of the week. that is the goal. officials let most of the families that evacuated return home yesterday. nearly a dozen wildfires are still burning in california. state officials say so far, battling those fires has cost the state $60 million. we have just learned an oklahoma judge has ruled against forced ultrasounds for women seeking an abortion. critics successfully argued the law was unconstitutionally vague and didn't spell out what doctors should tell women who had to undergo an ultrasound. state lawmakers originally passed the measure by overriding the governor there, brad henry zito. henry argued it was unconscionable to require victims of rape and incest to have an ultrasound.

we have been asking your views on that very controversial situation, that law in oklahoma. got some phone calls now. angela's calling us from columbus, mississippi. all right, angela. fire away. >> caller: how are you? >> great. how are you? >> caller: i'm good. i agree with the caller that had called in earlier. i'm not sure if i think it should be mandatory. however, i do think it is a really good idea to, you know, possibly do so because there are so many people in this country, or women, rather, that use abortion as a form of birth control. growing up, i have seen it time and time again and unfortunately, another lady called in earlier and said that it's a form of cruel and unusual punishment. however, my opinion is that the child is the one who, you know, has the cruel punishment. but at the same time, you know, i mean, there are women out there, families out there, who

want so badly to be parents and cannot have children, and i am one of those people. i can no longer have children. i had a son back in 2001 that died of, you know, heart complications and that was my one chance. >> so you're thinking, that's a horrible thing you went through but if you're thinking if they had the ultrasound it might be a deterrent or make people think twice before they went through with it. >> caller: absolutely. >> thank you. got to move on. thank you for your phone call and for sharing something so personal. jill is calling from glendale, arizona. did you hear what angela was just telling us? where do you stand on this? >> caller: yes, i agree 100%. >> okay. >> caller: i think that abortion is a very, like you said, it's a very tough, hard issue, sensitive issue, but i know people that have used this multiple times for birth control

and this is an innocent child. if this, you know, the fetus is not born yet but give it the opportunity. i mean, if pregnant women -- >> so are you basically saying that since you agree with melissa, you think if women actually saw the ultrasound, they might see what they're going through with? >> caller: they would no doubt in their mind, this is a formless blob of nothing or is it going to -- is it alive, can it actually feel the pain, can it, i mean -- >> jill, i will have to let you go. i appreciate exactly what you're saying, though. i appreciate your point of view. but we have a lot of people that are really passionate about this, just like you are. it's been a really hot question today. i posted it on my facebook page and got a ton of responses. this is just a few that we picked out. trudy wrote absolutely not. the decision to have an abortion is agonizing enough without a

forced ultrasound. thanks. it's ridiculous. judy disagrees, writing i think it is a great thing to do the ultrasound before an abortion. maybe these people will realize there's a living human being in their body. so she agrees with a couple of the callers we just had. thanks for your e-mails and phone calls today. we still want your comments here at hln news and views. prime news starts at the top of the hour. lots of topics on prime news, you can comment on and discuss it with mike galanos. check them out and see how you can get your view heard. michael jackson's doctor is finally speaking out. what he is saying to patients and friends on a video he just posted on youtube.

michael jackson's personal physician is breaking his silence nearly two months after the singer's death. dr. conrad murray just posted a video on youtube today. he addresses his supporters. ted rowlands is in los angeles with the latest. i'm sure everyone, you included, have been asking for an interview. this is the route he chose, ted. >> reporter: yeah, multiple times, actually. yeah, and you know, this is a very controlled environment. obviously, they filmed, videotaped this message, they said they did it last wednesday in houston and edited it to what they wanted, then they released it today about three and a half hours ago. what they did, they put it on youtube, they sent the link out to his patients and supporters,

although they would have full knowledge it was going to get leaked into the mainstream media very soon and indeed, it has. here is the message now. he starts by thanking his supporters but then at the end, listen, he talks about how he says he is telling the truth. >> i want to thank all of my patients and friends who have sent such kind e-mails, letters and messages to let me know of your support and prayers for me and my family. because of all that is going on, i'm afraid to return phone calls or use my e-mail. therefore, i recorded this video to let all of you know that i have been receiving your messages. i have not been able to thank you personally, which as you know, is not normal for me. your messages give me strength and courage and keep me going. they mean the world to me. please don't worry. as long as i keep god in my heart and you in my life, i will

be fine. i have done all i could do. i told the truth and i have faith the truth will prevail. god bless you and thank you. >> reporter: now, richelle, dr. conrad murray's attorneys say that over this past almost two-month period, they have been getting phone calls every day from supporters. they say every day, somebody spreads a rumor that he's either committed suicide or is on suicide watch, and this was their way of sort of telling everybody that supports him that he is okay. but clearly, from a p.r. standpoint, it was a good move to humanize him because all that we have seen of him are still photos and we are hearing all of these things that he allegedly did in the care of michael jackson, so it's a two-fold message here. as far as the investigation goes, they say it has no timing connected to it. i asked did you release this because you think maybe he's going to be arrested in the next few days and you wanted to get something out there on the record. they said no, the investigation

has nothing to do with the timing. we just thought it was time for him to say something to folks that are supporting him and clearly, to everybody else. >> like you said, it does at least make him human, if nothing else. what do you know about when michael jackson will finally be buried? it has been a long time. >> reporter: yes, it has. finally, the family has made definitive plans and they have released it in a press release. they are going to bury him on his 51st birthday which is a week from saturday. it will be a private burial at the forest lawn cemetery in glendale, which is in the los angeles area, starting at 10:00. but it will be private. clearly, after a lot of thought and a lot of different ideas, they have come to an agreement and that's their plan, to bury him on what would have been his 51st birthday. >> exactly what that day is. it's going to be private. all right, ted, great wrapup today. thank you. >> reporter: you bet. talk about an unpleasant surprise in your front yard.

not a robber. a huge 11-foot python. california homeowner was on his porch sunday night when he saw this enormous snake moving across the fenced yard. it took two animal control officers to get the 50 pound snake into a truck. look at it. it's in an animal shelter. authorities say the python was probably somebody's pet. stocks got crushed yesterday as investors got nervous about the economic recovery. today we find out if there has been a change in the mood on wall street. let's hope so, felicia. >> indeed, there has been a change. investors are feeling a lot better after today's closing bell as stocks staged a rebound. earnings reports from home depot and target beat expectations and that helped calm worries about consumer spending. the major averages recouped about half of yesterday's big losses. the dow industrials rose 82 points to close at 9217. the nasdaq composite gained and

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mike 'ally jackson's doctor is in a new internet video. he says he told the truth. dr. conrad murray is talking for the first time since the pop legend's death. in this video that is posted on youtube. >> i want to thank all of my patients and friends who have sent such kind e-mails, letters and messages to let me know of your support and prayers for me and my family. because of all that is going on, i'm afraid to return phone calls or use my e-mail. therefore, i recorded this video to let all of you know that i have been receiving your messages. i have not been able to thank you personally, which as you know, is not normal for me.

your messages give me strength and courage, and keep me going. they mean the world to me. please don't worry. as long as i keep god in my heart and you in my life, i will be fine. i have done all i can do. i told the truth and i have faith the truth will prevail. god bless you. and thank you. >> of course, authorities have been investigating dr. murray in connection with jackson's death. that was back on june 25th. they say he may have administered a powerful anesthetic to the pop singer the day he died. we have learned that jackson will be laid to rest on what would have been his 51st birthday. jackson will be buried during a private ceremony at forest lawn cemetery in glendale, just north of los angeles. it will be on august 29th. the family spokesperson says the singer will be buried in the cemetery's great mausoleum which

features art replicas. the ceremony is for families and close friends. one of byrd and melanie billings' children was actually in the room with the couple when they were killed in their home in florida. that's what a nurse who interviewed the boy told police. the nurse said the boy, who has autism and speech issues, told her quote, two bad men wearing black masks came to the room and told byrd billings you're going to die. six men and a teenager are charged with first degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of the billings couple last month. they have pleaded not guilty. an eighth suspect, a woman, faces a charge of being an accessory after the fact. conservative commentator robert novak has died after a long battle with brain cancer. he was 78. his family says he died today in washington at his home. novak was a fixture on our sister network, cnn's political debate show. n you know the one, "crossfire." readers also followed his column for decades.

novak found himself at the center of the valerie plame scandal that sent louis "scooter" libby to prison, outing the cia operative in his column in 2003. friends called novak the prince of darkness and he embraced that nickname, using it for the title of his memoir. hurricane bill was looming large, getting stronger in the atlantic ocean so let's check in with meteorologist chad myers. he has a look at its projected path and how much stronger this thing could actually get. hey, chad. >> hello, richelle. the thing could get to be a category 4 hurricane. some of the computer models are making it that large. i think basically all of the reliable ones, though, are keeping it a 3. we have to realize it's 105 miles per hour right now, only six miles per hour from being that category 3. we have a hurricane hunter aircraft in it for the air force hurricane hunter. they have been flying around and have found a few flight level winds to 115 miles per hour. they left out of antigua and are flying through the storm. where exactly is it?

well, we will drag our storm pulse.com map here and show you exactly where it is. there's bill. here's san juan. if i touch san juan, i can get an estimation of about 1,047 miles from san juan, from bermuda proper, 1474 miles. it's still a long way out there, still has a long way to go and the computer models are still not taking it to the u.s. pretty close to bermuda, though. now, this could still shift a little bit to the left. these are all the computer models and what they say, what they believe is going to happen from where bill is here. you have to realize, this is still about 100 hours out, less than five days, but the air five days out in a computer model could be here or could be here. i don't believe it's going to the u.s. just yet, but still, as this gets closer, we'll see whether the big turn, as we call it, actually takes place. richelle, what happens is that there's a high pressure right here. that high pressure is blowing the wind like this, and so if

the high never moved like it did in andrew, this storm would follow this wind and head toward the west, or the u.s. that is not the forecast. the forecast is for the high pressure system to move well into the atlantic and turn like this. that's why this turn is forecast and it is forecast to miss the u.s., possibly not newfoundland or up here. we're talking about all the areas up here, atlantic canada, you are still in that but that's a seven-day cone they don't even make. we will keep watching that for you. so far, this is a very large storm. it continues to grow with time and the satellite makes it very strong eye tonight. in fact, we will get another update in just the next few minutes to see if they move it left or right. for now, it's on a big course and a path so far to miss the u.s. >> that's what we wanted to hear. so they don't make a seven-day cone? they got to get working on that. >> lucky to make a three-day cone. literally, the air gets so far left and right by five days, it's almost worthless. don't focus on that. these models can be off a lot.

we'll see. >> i always learn a lot when we watch you. thank you, chad. well, the minnesota vikings say brett favre is coming back to the nfl and playing for them. 39-year-old favre is practicing with the team. you can see right there he's wearing old number 4. insiders had had expected him to come out of retirement for a two-year deal worth anywhere from $10 million to $12 million. now let me remind you, just a couple months ago, favre said he would not return. now, of course, favre's career has been a bit of a roller coaster ride for the past two years. he was retiring, coming out of retirement, switching teams multiple times. we are joined at the vikings training camp in eden prairie, minnesota with fan reaction. do tell. >> reporter: well, as you said, this has been quite the saga. i'm actually standing on the training field for the minnesota vikings. they i believe we're the only

ones broadcasting live from the field today. it struck me, what are the minnesota fans here, and maybe some of the green bay packer fans, the team he used to play for, what do they think? today after weeks of i'm not going to join, i'm going to retire, today it sounds like it's going to be official. sorry, i'm playing with this. i will put this out for a second. it will be official today, we expect, in just about an hour and a half. i went to the mall of america, stood outside a vikings merchandise store, ran into a green bay packers fan, another woman, minnesota vikings fan. they happened to meet randomly. here's what happened. >> my feeling is first he retired, then didn't retire, then he retired, now -- i don't know, it's just to the point where kind of like when michael jordan retired 35 times, it kind of gets a little old and you know, i think, i mean, he was a great player and i'm a huge packer fan. it was a little disappointing. >> reporter: feel like a traitor? >> maybe not a traitor so much,

but unfortunately, you're our sworn enemies this year in minnesota. so it's kind of like he's gone to the other side which is traitorous. but it's okay. we're forgiving. we're loving. we're in the midwest. we can stand next to each other and love each other anyway, even though she's -- >> reporter: training camp has been in progress since the 31st of last month, so he would have missed most of that at this point. now the first official game of the regular season is december 13. richelle? >> no more will he, won't he. i guess the question now is can he really do this. how does he look out there? >> reporter: well, you know, i just got here. it's hard for me to tell because really, i just scrambled to put the shot up, get you the field. judging from the amount of media here, this is going to be quite a show this afternoon. we'll see what he has to say if he does in fact speak. >> quite a show. you bet. that's the way to put it. i agree with you.

well said. thanks, chris. appreciate it. all right. got a question for you. which would you choose, sex or sleep? the numbers are in. find out if you're in the majority. plus, an nba player smokes dope. but he says it's okay for him to light up. wait until you hear his reason.

sunday school teacher turned suspected killer, melissa huckabee has been indicted on kidnapping, rape and murder charges. she broke down in court yesterday as a judge read the indictment which was handed down by a grand jury. huckabee pleaded not guilty to murdering 8-year-old sandra cantu.

sandra's body was found stuffed in a suitcase at an irrigation pond in april. huckabee also pleaded not guilty to charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man whom police believe she dated at one point. a trial date has not been set just yet. kids are back with their mother after being kidnapped from their home early this morning. javier soto is in phoenix with more on their abduction and how the kids were found. >> how are they doing, officer? >> reporter: found safe. four and a half hours after these two kids were kidnapped. >> somebody beat on the door and i come and looked through the curtain, and saw them two babies out there screaming their head off. >> reporter: dick saw the brother and sister sitting on this rock outside his south phoenix home. scared and all alone. >> i didn't know what to do but i woke my wife up and we brought them inside. >> reporter: little did he know,

2-year-old jesus and his 11 month old sister vanessa were part of an amber alert issued early this morning after four suspects busted into this home demanding money, then taking the two children. >> we're very concerned about the welfare of these two little children. the girl, vanessa, is 11 months old. obviously, her brother is 2 years old. we want to make sure suspects understand they need to drop these kids off at a safe place. >> reporter: the suspects did just that, leading to this reunion with worried family members. although the children are now safe, those responsible are still on the loose. >> by the time i looked, there wasn't nobody out here. >> reporter: the suspects are described as african-american men, seen leaving in a '90s style white japanese import, honda or toyota. if you have any information, you are urged to contact police. the good news is, the kids are back with their mother. javier soto, for hln.

a woman born without a left forearm has successfully sued her employer. we're talking about retail giant abercrombie & fitch. she sued for discrimination after she said they banished her from the floor to the stockroom. her story's getting a lot of attention today at cnn.com. katherine calloway joins us with this story.@y what are the details? >> reporter: abercrombie & fitch, surely you have seen their advertisements, you may have been in their store. they are known for their incredibly beautiful models, you know, the flawless bodies. well, this young girl says that she apparently didn't fit their ideal. the 22-year-old london law student tried to cover up her prosthetic arm, even buying a cardigan at her employer's request. listen to what she said happened. >> i originally asked to wear -- and they said that would be

okay. could you purchase the cardigan, which i did. then they started having a problem with that cardigan and by my fifth or sixth shift, they decided that i shouldn't be seen and should work in the stockroom. >> reporter: her bosses said that she was moved because the sweater violated their quote, look policy. dean says the look policy was used as an excuse just to try and hire away. abercrombie has been blatant about its emphasis on looks. in fact, its ceo once said quote, we go for the cool kids. a lot of people don't belong and can't belong, are we exclusionary, absolutely. >> what? >> reporter: but a british panel apparently ruled they just went too far in how they treated dean, who is very beautiful, as you can see. she was awarded $15,000 in the discrimination case. abercrombie says the whole thing was just a misunderstanding. it's interesting, though, to remember that back in 2004, abercrombie was also in trouble

and they actually settled some $41 million lawsuit by nine minority employees who say they were forced to go into the stockroom and work there because they say they didn't fit the ideal. so interesting on what's going to happen now. the good news is dean is apparently already getting job offers. >> good for her. i love that. that is the best way to wrap that up. nba point guard stefan marbury smokes dope on camera, says it's okay for him to light up. wait until you hear his reason. x

you know the time, prime news is coming up in just a few minutes. so mike took a break from the computer in his little office, came down here to tell us what is on the agenda today. i took a look. i approve. pretty good agenda today. first one, wow. >> coming out of my hole to come talk to you. >> you'll see one day, he comes running down here. you got notes. >> dr. murray, as you have been talking about, gives the one-minute spiel on youtube. the first comments he's made publicly since michael jackson died.

it's a thank you to supporters. we'll leave it at that. we will dissect what he had to say. what's the goal, what's the motive in all this? that's what you're wondering here. what about the timing? i keep telling richelle. we will delve into all that. we have experts standing by as well. we want to hear from you. also this. it is disturbing to watch. dash cam video shows cops punching and kicking a man. he was pulled over for going 15 miles an hour over the speed limit. next thing you know, he gets tackled, six, seven officers are seen. one looks like it's field goal practice as he's kicking this guy. we will hear from him, have our experts standing by. looks like excessive force to me. we'll see what the experts say. want to hear from you as well. you will want to get to the phones as well. at 6:30, nancy grace will join me. it will be an honor to have her on the show. we will talk about her new book, an incredible read. page turning murder mystery. you won't put it down. we will talk about that.

it was ten years in the making. we will talk to her as well about some of the stories we cover. i'm specifically going to ask her is there one of these stories, sandra cantu, casey anthony, that is tough to shake and you take home with you? we'll be asking nancy some of those questions. we'll take your calls as well. 1-877-tell hln is the number. you can e-mail us or text us. coming your way in about ten minutes. >> good stuff, mike. thank you. we got pictures just in to hln we want to show you. this is a severe storm in the beaumont, texas area. police have sealed off a shopping center because of destructive winds from a possible tornado and there is your picture right there. this is the roof of a kohl's department store that looks like it did collapse. some customers were hurt. we do not know how badly they were hurt. also, one exterior wall was torn away. again, from a storm in beaumont, texas that may have been a tornado. they're not sure. cars and trucks were flipped

over in the parking lot as well. wanted to get you those pictures. nba player stephon marbury smokes pot, apparently doesn't care who knows about it. he was seen smoking marijuana on camera on his own site. tmz posted two clips that appear to show him smoking a joint and one, he says i smoke marijuana, yep, you saw me. he says he does it occasionally, not when he's under contract or when he's driving. the former timberwolf is a free agent right now. he played last season for the celtics. an oklahoma judge has just ruled against a controversial anti-abortion law that would force women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. the judge says it violated state constitutional requirements that legislative measures deal only with one subject. critics say the law was unconstitutionally vague and didn't spell out what doctors should tell women who were undergoing the ultrasound. opponents argued it requires doctors to describe the fetus, its dimensions, heart activity and other physical details.

lawmakers originally passed the measure by overriding governor brad henry's veto. henry argued it was unconscionable to require victims of rape and incest to under go the ultrasound. more to come. )$)$)$)$)$)$)$$

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